Maham Ayub

One of my favorite books ever. It made my heart happy. I cried & I laughed. It was written so beautifully. I hope she’ll write another novel.

This is the most depressing book I’ve ever read. It just gets worse and worse. For people who are not Arab and read this, I feel like they’re going to have this stereotype that all husbands beat their wives and it’s just something common over there. Some parts of the book were just so dramatic it just felt unreal. Like when Isra called her daughter a bad word just because her daughter waved goodbye to a male student. Overall, I just found this book to be way too depressing.. it should’ve given some hope but it didn’t. The characters were just too dramatic in my opinion.. it just didn’t feel realistic.