A review by perfectplaces
Naphtalene: A Novel of Baghdad by Peter Theroux, Alia Mamdouh, Hélène Cixous, عالية ممدوح, F.A. Haidar

challenging reflective slow-paced

3.5

“My father and I had the same constitution. Our fear of one another had no mask. He could not bear the loss of me, and it was the same with me. We attacked each other’s walls, and did not confuse anything that passed between us. We plotted together, and publicly: the arena, that place of rancor and celebration, all this sameness. We spread out there and waited for one another.

They said, “Huda was suckled by Satan.””

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this book is so hard to read but once you get past that it has such a fascinating dissection of gender dynamics and parent-daughter relationships. I hope you die I hope we both die (TM)