Joe Mitchell
, Cassandra AOUIZERATE
, Barry Kazimer
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Jude Castillo
, Tatiana Robinson
, Marilyn Stanley
, Claudie Léveillé
, Sarah Schwartz
, Andrea Pole
, Natasa Ilic
, Linda Leitch
, Mary Ellen Havlik
, Noelle Walsh
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Chris Lantz
, Andrea Gillespie
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Chantal Gingras
, Rita O'Sullivan
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Laurie Burns
, Charles Leblanc
, Kathleen Hutchison
, Paula Ritchie
, Benita Hartwell
, Leila Grobel
, diana kirkwood
, Huguette Lemieux
, Margaret McKay
, Janice Cournoyer
, Kate Kostandoff
, Margaret Palmer
, Denise Duvall
, Lynn Andrews
, Patricia McKeown
, Randi Ann Doll
, Catherine Young
, Sandra Furlotte
, Kim Cappellina
, Sindi Nika
, Lisa Mallia
, Jessica Gilbert
, Ken Gilmour
, Kym Marsh
, Karen Nordrum
, Mary Campbell
, Melissa Poremba
, Cindy Bodini
, Han Monarch
, Lynn Bechtel
, Sara Conway
, Susan Jang
, Barbara Leckie
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Joshua Lewis
, Alicia Romac
, Chris Carvalho
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Robert Hykawy
, Rodney Cross
, Rosa Cross
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Deana Bueley
, Janet Miller
, Tyra Antle
, Amie Gaudet
, Beth Dekoker
, Rachel Edmonds
, Sara Erskine
, Prabh Toor
, Judith Pearson
, Maureen Brownlee
, Neha Faisal
In the winter of 2007, Zulaikha is travelling from Amsterdam to Tehran when she is approached by Kia, a family acquaintance she hasn's seen for many years, who is on the same flight. Kia's father has passed away and she is flying home to attend his funeral. In a shocking twist, Zulaikha suspects that Kia may have had information about her missing brother, Hessam, and their mutual friend, Abbass, who was murdered before Hessam's disappearance during the Iran and Iraq War.
When the flight is suddenly cancelled, and Zulaikha is later taken into custody and questioned about her relationship with Kia by both the European and Iranian authorities, who ultimately confiscate her passport, a tense thriller unfolds revealing the impacts of war and the consequences for one young woman unknowingly caught in the crossfire of greed, power, and international politics.
This sweeping novel explores many timely topics including issues related to gender, class, race, and interracial marriage. It also sheds light on the tumultuous history of Iran from a new perspective. The novel reveals a forty-year period of war and upheaval in the Middle East, and specifically, in Zulaikha's home territory of Khuzestan, which boasts the bulk of Iran's oil reserves, a place of intense tension between Iran and the U.S. still today.
