In primary school, in preparation for Mother’s Day, our teachers used to help us work on a craft or a drawing to give to our mothers. That was how we celebrated Mother’s Day. We didn’t go for brunch, buy expensive gifts, or plan a day at the spa. But those handmade crafts meant a lot for me as a little...
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This is the literary quest undertaken by Monia Mazigh in her novel about revolutions and families, about the Bread Riots of Tunisia and the Arab Spring. How do women come of age as dissidents? The difficult secrets shared by mothers and daughters are universal in this thoroughly imagined narrative in which a Canadian story is, necessarily, a story of the world.” — \u003cstrong\u003eKim Echlin, author of Under the Visible Life\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Kim Echlin, author of Under the Visible Life","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis is Monia Mazigh’s second work of fiction with Anansi. 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One had her hair done pageboy style, slicked down, and a button nose, light-coloured skin, and slightly slanted eyes that made her look like a cat about to pounce. The other was constantly adjusting her abundant chestnut hair with the back of her hand. Her black eyes accentuated the whiteness of her skin; a few reddish blotches marked her oval face. Reem and Farah looked me over carefully when they saw me come in with Donia. Even before we were introduced, I knew they wouldn’t like me. My ripped jeans, my multiple earrings worn in a line along my earlobe, the high forehead I’d inherited from my mom, and my blues eyes, just like my dad’s: everything about me told them just how foreign I was. Even my brown and hopelessly curly hair that stood out in corkscrew-like tufts from my head — another hand-me-down from Mom and a source of wonder, of compliments, and admiration during my childhood in Canada — was not enough for them to see me as a Tunisian. Me, the daughter born of the marriage of Nadia the Tunisian and Alex the Canadian. In their eyes, I was some kind of strange mix, a hybrid, a monstrosity produced by the meeting of two distinct worlds but clearly belonging to neither.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis is Monia Mazigh’s second work of fiction with Anansi. Her first, \u003cem\u003eMirrors and Mirages\u003c\/em\u003e, was widely praised for the authentic depiction of the lives of Muslim women.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePerfect for book clubs, this novel weaves together the experiences of two women: a mother and her Canadian-born daughter set against the backdrop of political chaos and revolution without striking a false note. 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Hope Has Two Daughters
Hope Has Two Daughters offers a glimpse inside two Iranian revolutions from the perspectives of a mother and daughter.
Mar 26, 2021
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