"A bold, evocative new novel from the National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 and Betty Trask Award winner Isabella Hammad that follows actress Sonia as she returns to Palestine and takes a role in a West Bank production of Hamlet. After years away from her family's homeland, and healing from an affair with an established director, stage actress Sonia Nasir returns to Palestine to visit her older sister Haneen. Though the siblings grew up spending summers...

The North/South border, Ireland, 1981. While illegally digging up peat in a bog where they should not have been, Northerner Tally and his nephew, Fergus McCann, discover the body of a child. They initially suspect the body to be a victim of the merciless IRA. However, archaeological studies reveal the body to be over 2,000 years old and not necessarily a child. Discovering who, when, and why the girl now called Mel died is the topic on everyone's...