![]() ![]() We're thrilled to welcome Monia to Open Book today to speak about Hope Has Two Daughters. She talks to us about the quotation (from more than 1,000 years ago!) that inspired her memorable title, the mother-daughter bond that runs through not only this novel but much of her writing, and how the life of a dissident is different for women. Amidst this personal journey, the Arab Spring erupts around Lila, changing the course of both women's lives, and the course of history. But Lila does end up in her mother's home city, where she uncovers difficult truths about Nadia's young life. When Nadia leaves her native country in 1984, running from the violence of Tunisia's infamous Bread Riots, she never imagines that her daughter will return to the country 25 years later. ![]() Reed from its original French) is a powerful family story that covers not one but two revolutionary periods in Tunisian history. ![]() Monia Mazigh's Hope Has Two Daughters (translated by Fred A. ![]()
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