Layla AlAmmar

"This is not just good storytelling, but a blueprint for survival." -The New York Times Book Review A transfixing and beautifully rendered novel about a refugee's escape from civil war-and the healing power of community. A young woman sits in her apartment, watching the small daily dramas of her neighbors across the way. She is an outsider, a mute voyeur, safe behind her windows, and she sees it all-the sex, the fights, the happy and unhappy...