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Before the Queen Falls Asleep by Huzama Habayeb

Before the Queen Falls Asleep

Huzama Habayeb with Kay Heikkinen (Translator)

288 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction literary emotional reflective slow-paced
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Born a girl to parents who expected a boy, Jihad grows up treated like the eldest son, wearing boy’s clothing and sharing the financial burden of head of the household with her father.Now middle-aged, each night Jihad tells her daughter a story fr...

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