Nina is a Dutch lawyer in Dubai - sharp, independent, entirely herself, and not particularly looking for love when she finds Mohamed. For almost a year, they are everything to each other. Until they aren't. She returns home with a suitcase of questions, carrying loss in her chest and in her body.
In the aftermath-through her therapist, through Reem, a Syrian refugee widow who becomes her mirror, through her family, and through Sami-Nina discovers what she thought she had lost: that her sensuality was never a problem to be managed. It was always a gift to be claimed.
A novel about a woman who knows her own worth, loses sight of it briefly, and finds her way back-without apology, without compromise, and in excellent shoes.
Woman does not emerge from a man's ribs. It is he who emerges from her womb. - Nizar Qabbani