Coin ritual scattering to Beirut

scattering to Beirut

' Avi Shlaim

Ali Millar's debut novel is a contemporary fable against images and their enduring hold on us

or your wallet inside your pocket)

Coin ritual scattering to BeirutThe Coins narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory, and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed from the start. In New York, she strives to put down roots. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys, where her eccentric methods cross boundaries. She befriends