Gulf

<p>'INSTANTLY GRIPPING' JENNIFER EGAN<br><b><br>The lives of five women collide in the Arabian Gulf as each looks for a way to rewrite their future.<br></b> <br>Dounia, a young Saudi finds herself alienated and alone as she prepares for motherhood in an air-conditioned mansion in the middle of the desert.<br><br> After losing her home and baby in a natural disaster, Flora does the unthinkable and leaves her surviving child in the Philippines to become an overseas domestic worker.<br><br> Pushed by her family to marry a jihadist, Zeinah, a Syrian woman finds herself joining the city's morality police.<br><br> Justine uproots her progressive New York family to curate an exhibit in Abu Dhabi, where she must reckon with her ethical limitations.<br><br> And Eskedare, a spirited and defiant Ethiopian teenager, flees an arranged marriage to search for her friend.<br><br>The consequences of their meetings are devastating and profound as they all discover how far they're willing to go in order to survive.<br><br><b>Written with unsettling intimacy and fierce empathy, GULF is a blazingly powerful and original novel about cruelty, rebellion and resilience. <br><br>Most of all it's about the power of hope.</b></p>