A profoundly elegant novel with the power to both break and heal your heart. Ru Freeman, author of On Sal Mal Lane, describes it as epic in scope and uniquely relevant in its concern for displacement. Particularly well-suited for our times. Where do you go when you can't go home? On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in the dregs of a coffee cup. Although she keeps her predictions to herself that day, they soon come to pass after the Six-Day War of 1967. Involved in the resistance, Alia's brother disappears while Alia and her husband move from Nablus to Kuwait City. Reluctantly, they build a life, torn between the need to remember and the learning to forget. When Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait, Alia loses her home, her country, and her history as she knows it once again, along with her family. Dispersed to Beirut, Paris, and Boston, Alia's children begin a new chapter.