Sand fish. a novel from dubai, paperback/maha gargash

Seventeen-year-old Noora is not like the other women of the sun-battered mountains of the Arabian Peninsula in the 1950s.

With the death of her mother, her father sinks into a dazed madness.

Thats when her brother assumes responsibility and insists that she marry.

Noora refuses, and flees to a nearby mountain village.