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The winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize about mothers and daughters, nation and exile, and the way forward with hope and pain . . . a masterpiece (Tayari Jones, The Times).

A gut punch of a novel that asks us to consider: what do we pass on to our children? What do we owe those we love? And without roots, can you ever truly be free?

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 deathjust as she has learned that her daughter Aram is pregnant with her first childNahid 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 stor

What We Owe

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      Publisher HarperCollins
      Published 1/16/2018 12:10:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9781328995087
      978-1328995087
      ISBN-10 1328995089

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize about mothers and daughters, nation and exile, and the way forward with hope and pain . . . a masterpiece (Tayari Jones, The Times).

      A gut punch of a novel that asks us to consider: what do we pass on to our children? What do we owe those we love? And without roots, can you ever truly be free?

      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 deathjust as she has learned that her daughter Aram is pregnant with her first childNahid 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 stor

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