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129 pages, Paperback
First published July 29, 2021
The image of the sambac, the tree that filled our back yard with its sweet, creamy scent, appears in my narrator's attempts to create life where this shrub doesn't naturally thrive.
As the narrator grows into unlikely circumstances away from Gaza, memory is her greenhouse; her way to bring back the voice of the girl who was sacrificed and born in the hands of her identity. At her desk in a flat in Southeast London, she writes of what makes her soul flicker: community love, especially the kind embodied by circles of women and girls.