Set in rural Netherlands in 2005, this troubling novel follows the dangerous relationship between a young farmer's daughter and a local veterinarian. It is read as a psychological drama in which the suffocating logic of a closed community collides with desire and loss.

Desire and obsession slowly crack open a closed community.

Lebanese writer and illustrator Lamia Ziadé layers personal memory with extensive research to trace the history and losses of the Middle East from the twentieth century to the present. The result feels like an archive of memory in which prose and image work together.

Prose and images redraw modern Middle Eastern history through personal memory.