No Land to Light on (by Yara Zgheib)

I had never heard of Yara Zgheib and most likely would not have come across her book ‘No Land to Light on’ in the normal course of events. But it was allocated for this month’s local reading group, so I put it on my wishlist earlier in the year and was given it for my birthday.
It’s a very striking book. It features a married couple who have been separated by unexpected circumstances. The story opens at the end of January 2017. A six-months pregnant young Syrian woman called Sama is waiting in...