I received this book for free from the site netgalley.com in exchange for my unbiased review.
About :Maryam ,Marta and Eleazer live in a world with strict rules in a strict religious middle eastern village where the men learn ,study and the women draw water from wells ,clean , do the housework ,plant and weed the garden and do whatever is asked of them .Any disgrace or misbehavior and there is a danger of being shunned or stoned to death . Maryam's father meets a leper in their olive orchard , he holds the leper as he dies singing the prayers that are sung when someone is passing . As a gift the leper gives her father a jar made of precious alabaster .Maryam and her father hope to use it as dowry for her sister Marta but things go awry when its discovered that their father has contracted the leprosy disease. Maryam's father is then cast out from the village .Maryam and Marta are shunned and their brother runs off to the city leaving them to deal with the fall out .There are rumors of a doctor than can cure anything so there might be hope after all .
What I liked: While I want so bad to do a full in depth review of this book it would contain way to many spoilers and I hate reviews with spoilers . I loved this book , the anger and pain I felt for the main characters was intense. Maryam and Marta both went through so many struggles and the abandonment they felt when their brother left them was horrible .I was shocked and pleasantly surprised by this book it took me to a frame of mind to think about how women are treated in that culture .Its so easy to dismiss it because I don't live in it every day or suffer the way they do .I t opened my eyes to the burdens they suffer and that basically women are property in that society, they don't matter for much than manual labor, cooking and children .The doctor is and up lifting character that gives hope where there was none and changed the lives of many in the story. I will say this if you are looking for something else to believe in and to have a story that will give you hope and see things differently this is the book for you . Amazing job, very well done .
You can find Chris Aslan on Goodreads : https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15487288.Chris_Aslan
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