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"“A moving meditation on motherhood, inter-generational trauma and how surface appearances often obscure a deeper truth. . . . A stunning second novel from a writer who set the bar very high with her first!”&#٬٢٠١٤؛Tara Conklin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics and Community Board The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking exploration of the expectations of Palestinian-American...

Sixty years after making a bizarre discovery under a body-filled trench in a Nazi concentration camp, the survivors of the medical unit responsible are being systematically murdered, and Palestinian-American detective Ben Kamal and Israeli Danielle Barnea, working for the U.N., investigate a massacre in a Palestinian village that could be tied to the killings.

"A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great aunt's secrets in this sweeping debut, a family saga confronting questions of sexual identity, exile, and lineage. In a Pacific Northwest hospital far from the Rummani family's ancestralhome in Palestine, the heart of a stillborn baby begins to beat and her skin turns a vibrant, permanent cobalt blue. On the same day, the Rummanis' centuries-old soap factory in Nablus is destroyed...