The book is a time and a place that most of us never thought about. There were times I wanted to hug Nisrina and tell her that she hadn’t done anything to deserve the pain she thinks she deserves but then I realized she had to do what she did or she couldn’t be the woman she wanted to be. There were times I wanted to shake Jabran and shout at him to stop being such a fool but then I realized his only foolishness was in being a good man. No one is perfect and all pay self-imposed penance for the crimes they believe themselves to have committed. Her characters are human in their failings and in their accomplishments. She leaves the reader with no doubt that she knows the customs, the dress, the food, and the climate of the time and the place. Layla Fiske has painted a beautiful picture of a world I really never stopped to consider the Holy Land in the years before, during, and after World War I.
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