{"product_id":"9798889661658","title":"Floodlines: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Erudite and engaging.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSet between London and Baghdad, Saleem Haddad’s brilliant second novel is a sweeping, multigenerational tale of art, exile, memory, and the enduring legacies of war. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 2014, three long estranged Iraqi-British sisters are pulled back into each other’s orbit by the rediscovery of their late father’s long-lost paintings. Beautiful, elusive Zainab; embittered, practical Mediha; and headstrong, queer Ishtar each lay claim to their father’s legacy—an artistic and personal inheritance entwined with betrayal, exile, and a homeland they no longer recognize. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs the sisters fight to preserve, erase, or repurpose the past, Zainab’s estranged son Nizar, a war correspondent haunted by trauma and heartbreak, returns to the family fold. With the reemergence of buried memories comes a reckoning, and the family is forced to confront the personal and political betrayals that tore them apart.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpanning continents and decades—from 1950s Baghdad to contemporary London, from the Tigris River to Yemeni refugee camps—\u003ci\u003eFloodlines\u003c\/i\u003e is at once an intimate family drama and, in its scope, a modern epic. It is a rare novel that bridges the historic and the immediate and a heartfelt meditation on what it means to belong, to create, to endure. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Europa Editions, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43011703078973,"sku":"9798889661658","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9798889661658_p0.jpg?v=1771972176","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9798889661658","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}