EAN: 9781472156105

THE WRONG END OF THE TELESCOPE - RABIH ALAMEDDI...

By National Book Award finalist and Dos Passos Prize winner  Rabih Alameddine  comes a
transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman's personal journey among Syrian
refugees on Lesbos island. Mina Simpson  a Lebanese doctor  arrives at the infamous Moria
refugee camp on Lesbos  Greece  after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs
an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother  Mina has avoided being
so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of
thirty years  Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful  among the abundance of Western
volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp's children. Soon  a boat
crosses bringing Sumaiya  a fiercely resolute Syrian matriarch with terminal liver cancer.
Determined to protect her children and husband at all costs  Sumaiyarefuses to alert her family
to her diagnosis. Bonded together by Sumaiya's secret  a deep connection sparks between the two
women  and as Mina prepares a course of treatment with the limited resources on hand  she
confronts the circumstances of the migrants' displacement  as well as her own constraints in
helping them. Not since the inimitable Aaliya of An Unnecessary Woman has Rabih Alameddine
conjured such a winsome heroine to lead us to one of the most wrenching conflicts of our time.
Cunningly weaving in stories of other refugees into Mina's singular own  The Wrong End of the
Telescope is a bedazzling tapestry of both tragic and amusing portraits of indomitable spirits
facing this humanitarian crisis.

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