‘How the hell do you hold things together when all of a sudden you have to free hours upon hours every day to take care of your disabled mother? And now this stupid war. How do you make room in your life for a war?’

Nairouz, a Palestinian woman from Haifa in her 40s, has to make room in her too-busy life, to care for her disabled mother for six weeks, when the Second Lebabon War breaks in July of 2006. The novel follows her life during six hectic weeks, as she negotiates between her two children, academic career, activism, and caring for a disabled mother.

An extract from my current novel-in-progress, “Six Weeks – The Summer of 2006.”
Thank you Verity La and thank you Michele Seminara for this honor.
http://verityla.com/six-weeks-the-summer-of-2006-khulud-khamis/