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The Barnes & Noble Review from Discover Great New Writers

Come along on a magical mystery tour, courtesy of Masha Hamilton! This first novel, set in the Jordanian desert circa the mid-1960s, is rendered so authentically it had us shaking the sand out of our shoes.
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Kirkus (STARRED)

Former AP Middle East correspondent Hamilton writes with striking clarity, using words as carefully as the Bedouin use water to bring a disappearing world to vibrant life. Here, in a luminous debut, are the voices, real and rarely heard, of traditional Arab women.