Songs for Darkness PAPERBACK 9781623715625

Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

Songs for DarknessFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Simon And Schuster Group USA\nImprint: Interlink Books\nISBN-13: 9781623715625, 978-1623715625\nSynopsis\nOnly songs are able to comfort the soul in its darkness-but can anyone hear them? Iman Humaydan's saga recalls the voices of four generations of women from one family in the imaginary village of Kasura, in Mount Lebanon. Its narrator, Asmahan, named after the beloved Syrian singer, has devoted her adult life to recovering the stories of her ancestors, who persisted in the shadows of male supremacy, war, military occupation, and impoverishment. Her mother, Layla, disappeared when Asmahan was still a teenager. Her grandmother, Yasmine, died giving birth. And her great-grandmother, Shahira, struggled through two world wars, famine, and suffocating gender norms to win an education for her children and eke out a better life for her family. Asmahan is determined to protect her daughter and break out of the cycle of intergenerational viole.