Gulf

<p><b>These are the women whose stories you never hear.</b><br><b><br>Dounia, a young Saudi mother</b> finds herself alienated as she prepares for motherhood in an air-conditioned box in the middle of the desert, surrounded by construction and yet completely isolated.<br><br><b>Flora,</b> after losing everything in a natural disaster, feels she must do the unthinkable: leave her surviving child behind in the Philippines as she departs to <b>become an overseas domestic worker</b>.<br><br><b>Zeinah, a Syrian woman</b> who has been pushed by her family to marry a jihadist, <b>finds herself joining the city's morality police</b>.<br><br><b>Justine</b> uproots her progressive <b>New York family when she's tapped to curate an exhibit in Abu Dhabi</b>, where she must reckon with her moral and ethical limitations.<br><br>And <b>Eskedare,</b> a spirited and <b>defiant Ethiopian teenager, flees a dreaded arranged marriage</b> to search for her only friend, only to find her dreams dead-end in the Gulf.<br><br>Written with unsettling intimacy and determined empathy, GULF is a book about cruelty, rebellion, resilience - and hope. It asks the question: how far would you go in order to survive?</p>