[Blood in the Sun 02] • Gifts

Duniya is raising her twins as a single mother and working long hours as a nurse at a Mogadishu hospital, but the fragile self-sufficiency of her world has been rocked by her daughter bringing home a foundling and the advances of a wealthy and romantically interested family friend. With lyrical and luxuriant prose, Farah weaves a spellbinding tapestry of dreams, memories, family lore, folktales, and journalistic accounts. As Duniya’s tale unfolds against the backdrop of Somalia’s struggles, it becomes one of the most extraordinary portraits of a nation written in our time.