Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
Dune Song
Dune Song | Anissa M. Bouziane
1 post | 1 read
"I came to the Sahara to be buried." After witnessing the collapse of the World Trade Center, Jeehan Nathaar leaves her New York life with her sense of identity fractured and her American dream destroyed. She returns to Morocco to make her home with a family that's not her own. Healed by their kindness but caught up in their troubles, Jeehan struggles to move beyond the pain and confusion of September 11th. On this desiccated landscape, thousands of miles from Ground Zero, the Dune sings of death, love, and forgiveness.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
review
JillR
Dune Song | Anissa M. Bouziane
post image
Pickpick

Living in America, Jeehan witnesses the fall of the Twin Towers following which she returns to Morocco. The New York sections were incredibly affecting as Jeehan deals with her horror at what she has witnessed, but also has to cope with the reactions of those around her to her as an Arab Muslim woman. I‘ll admit that the Morocco chapters lost me somewhat and at times were completely odd. An inconsistent read for me, but still powerful and sobering