Spanning fifty years, this is a devastating and lyrical debut about one family in the wake of war - about needing to remember, and learning to forget. Displaced during the Six-Day War of 1967 and then again when Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait, Alia and her family lose their home, their land, and their story as they know it. Her children scatter to Beirut, Paris and Boston to begin again. A multigenerational novel set in territory not often written about - Palestine and Kuwait.