Just finished reading #HananAlShaych's 'Women of Sand and Myrrh'. It is brilliant and a tough read. This is largely because it captures something of the way that women, but actually any human, are trapped in a kind of limbo, unable to be themselves. There is no way out in a world where everything is false. It is able to explore these metaphysical themes by starting from the very particular: exile from Lebanon to a nameless gulf state emerging into an unreal capitalist modernity from an unreal nomadic past.