The House on Butterfly Street Alaoui Mhani
The House on Butterfly Street Alaoui Mhani In a country where the precarious rights of women and children can be reversed in an instant, legacies of resilience still reverberate across…
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The House on Butterfly Street Alaoui Mhani
In a country where the precarious rights of women and children can be reversed in an instant, legacies of resilience still reverberate across time.Present-day Morocco: With the breakdown of her marriage, physician Nadine Alam has become unable to work. Inside it is a newspaper clipping, an article about a single mother and her newborn child, a boy named Noor--typically a name given to girls, meaning light. Her teenage daughter Al has retreated into silence, and now her young housekeeper Ghalia has disappeared.One morning, Nadine receives an envelope from an unidentified sender.
Why would a journalist disclose the child's name? Nadine's country is one where single mothers and children born out of wedlock are considered pariahs, outside the protection of the law. And why was she sent this clipping?Drawn to these mysteries, Nadine embarks on a search that takes her