She returns with her best friend, Ellie, an Israeli-American scholar devoted to the Palestinian cause, to excavate the place and finally put to words a trauma she’s long held in silence.
Two decades later, Arezu inherits the apartment. As the weeks progress, Arezu is drawn into a mercurial, charged, and ultimately catastrophic affair with Omar, a relationship that shatters her just at the cusp of adulthood. He never shows up, instead sending her a weekly allowance, care of his step-nephew, Omar, a forty-year-old Lebanese man. It’s summer when Arezu, an Iranian American teenager, goes to Spain to meet her estranged father at an apartment he owns there.
Publisher: Mariner Books | Release Date: Aug| Pages: 288Īge Range: Adult | Genre: Literary Fiction | Sent via BookishFirst Savage Tongues by Azareen Van der Oloomi (ARC) I’m a new fan of Cass Khaw’s work and am very thankful to have an ARC of their science fiction debut! This band of dangerous women, half-clone and half-machine, must battle their own traumas and a universe of sapient ageships who want them dead, in order to settle their affairs once and for all.Ĭassandra Khaw’s debut novel is a page-turning exploration of humans and machines that is perfect for readers of Ann Leckie, Ursula Le Guin, and Kameron Hurley. The highly-evolved AI of the universe have their own agenda and will do whatever it takes to keep humans from ever controlling the universe again. A diverse team of broken, diminished former criminals get back together to solve the mystery of their last, disastrous mission and to rescue a missing and much-changed comrade… but they’re not the only ones in pursuit of the secret at the heart of the planet Dimmuborgir.
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