The denouements of the two relationships, though separated by more than 10 years, come one after the other both lead, painfully, to a deepening of Najwa's religious faith. An affair begun in Khartoum with devout, politically engaged, working-class fellow émigré Anwar is threaded in with a later one with Tamer, the contentiously devout, college-age son of the family for which Najwa works as a nanny when in her 30s. With her mother soon dead and her brother in jail on drug charges, Najwa attempts to negotiate work, love and the ways they get twisted around emigré politics-and religion. A Khartoum teen, Najwa flees to London with her mother and brother when the coup of 1985 leads to her father's arrest and execution. debut is written in the voice of Najwa, an upper-class Sudanese woman, and covers, episodically, 20 years of her life.
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