What We Owe
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Document Type
Book
Description
Nahid has six months left to live. Or so the doctors say. At fifty, she is no stranger to loss. But now, as she stands on the precipice of her own death—just as she has learned that her daughter Aram is pregnant with her first child—Nahid is 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 doesn’t know; she has never had 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.
Publication Date
2018
Publisher
Mariner Books
City
Boston
State
MA
Award
2019 Fiction Winner
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Creative Writing | Fiction
Repository Citation
Hashemzadeh Bonde , G. (2018). What We Owe. Boston, MA: Mariner Books.
