3.5
Finding Nouf
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When sixteen-year-old Nouf ash-Shrawi goes missing, her prominent family calls on desert guide Nayir al-Sharqi to lead a search party. Ten days later, Nouf's body is discovered. The coroner determines that she was several weeks pregnant. But even more unsettling is that she died not of dehydration but from drowning. Though her family is suspiciously uninterested in getting at the truth, Nayir is determined to find out what happened.
Now Nayir, a gentle and pious Palestinian living in Saudi Arabia, must delve into Nouf's secret life—no easy task in one of the world's most rigidly gender-segregated societies. Shocked by the idea of a woman baring her face and working in public, Nayir realizes that to gain access to the hidden world of Saudi women, he will have to join forces with Katya Hijazi, a lab worker at the coroner's office. As their partnership leads to surprising revelations, it also challenges Nayir, bringing him face to face with his desire for female companionship and the limitations imposed by his beliefs.
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3.5
“This was a pretty good mystery book set in Saudi Arabia. The setting was definitely very different from anything I had read before. The absolute crazy heat (shoes melting off your feet while walking in them!) is one thing, but also the way women are treated and how the characters actually feel about that aspect of their culture. This was a big part of the book, with Nayir being very uncomfortable around women, especially when they aren't as meek and modest as he would expect them to be. I liked the women who had strength and personality to them while still maintaining the laws and customs of the country. Not a full-on rebellion but little ones here and there.”
About Zoë Ferraris
moved to Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the first Gulf War to live with her then husband and his extended family of Saudi-Palestinian Bedouins. She has an MFA from Columbia University and is the author of two previous novels,
and
. She lives in San Francisco.
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