What We Owe

✍ Scribed by Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde; Elizabeth Jane Clark Wessel

• Publisher: Mariner Books; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 138 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers, 2018.
• ISBN: 1328995119

✦ Synopsis

A gut punch of a novel that asks us to consider: what do we pass on to our children? What do we owe those we love?And without roots, can you ever truly be free?

Nahid has six months left to live. Or so the doctors say. At fifty, she is no stranger to loss. But now, asshe stands on the precipice of her own deathjust as she haslearned that her daughter Aram ispregnant with her first childNahidis filled with both new fury and long dormant rage. Her life back home in Iran, and living as a refugee in Sweden, has been about survival at any cost. How to actually live, she doesnt know;she has neverhad the ability or opportunity to learn.

Here is an extraordinary story of exile, dislocation, and the emotional minefields between mothers and daughters; a story of love, guilt and dreams for a better future, vibrating with both sorrow and an unquenchable joie de vivre. With its startling honesty, dark wit, and irresistible momentum, What We Owe introduces a fierce and necessary new voice in international fiction**.**

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✦ Subjects

FICTION -- Contemporary Women