Middle Eastern


The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
The Complete Persepolis
The Prophet
And the Mountains Echoed
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)
The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy, #2)
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya, #1)
A Woman Is No Man
The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)
Mornings in Jenin
The Stationery Shop
Grief is shameless; it refuses to be ignored. If you let it have its way, it becomes fatal. If you try to remove it piece by piece, it only multiplies like a tumor. And if you try to fight it, it becomes like quicksand; you try to claw your way back to the surface, and for a second you feel the fresh air against your face, thinking you've survived, only to be pulled fiercely back down again, swallowed whole, nothing left. ...more
Zeina Kassem, Crossing

Caroline  Scott
Stella daydreamed about Continental delicatessen stores and the scent of ripe tomatoes. She and Michael had liked to go to Covent Garden and Billingsgate together, to Fortnum & Mason, and to the little foreign grocers' shops around Golders Green, Soho and Camden Town. She'd loved to see the sacks of pistachio nuts and the jars of crystallized ginger, the bottles of orange-flower water and distillations of rose petals, suggestive of the flavors of dishes from The Arabian Nights, the barrels of pi ...more
Caroline Scott, Good Taste

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