RaveThe New York Times Book Review... an astonishing fiction debut ... Aisha is everything you want in a heroine: cunning and headstrong, but also fallible ... Every sentence of this novel could be a verse. There are stories within stories here, bursting with truth and wisdom, honoring the rich oral traditions of the Hadrami ... Bajaber is a born storyteller, pulling you along Aisha’s epic quest to know her father’s fate. She punctuates the pathos with knowing humor, as when Aisha poses as a \'keeper of histories\' before the fearsome monster Baba wa Papa, or Father of the Shark.
