2021/058: The Frightened Ones -- Dima Wannous, translated by Elizabeth Jaquette

2021/058: The Frightened Ones -- Dima Wannous, translated by Elizabeth Jaquette

The revolution erupted in an instant. And in that instant, monsters appeared. They filled our city, our homes, our living rooms. They hit and slapped and insulted and killed and destroyed a whole history of human relationships. [loc. 1083]

Suleima's family fled the massacre in Hama in 1982: then fled again, to Beirut, after the Syrian revolution of 2011. Suleima makes frequent trips back to Damascus to see her therapist, Kamil, in whose waiting room she meets and begins a relationship with Naseem.( no spoilers )