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The skin and its girl : a novel / Sarah Cypher.

by Cypher, Sarah.

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Ballantine Books, 2023.

Palestinian Americans -- Fiction.

Lesbians -- Fiction.

Great-aunts -- Fiction.

Family secrets -- Fiction.

Immigrants -- United States -- Fiction.

Middle Easterners -- Fiction.

9780593499535 (hc.)

x, 335 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"In a Pacific Northwest hospital far from the Rummani family's ancestral home in Palestine, the heart of a stillborn baby begins to beat and her skin turns vibrantly, permanently cobalt blue. On the same day, the Rummanis' centuries-old soap factory in Nablus is destroyed in an air strike. The family matriarch and keeper of their lore, Aunt Nuha, believes that the blue girl embodies their sacred history, harkening back to a time when the Rummanis were among the wealthiest soap-makers and their blue soap was a symbol of a legendary love. Decades later, Betty returns to Aunt Nuha's gravestone, faced with a difficult decision: Should she stay in the only country she's ever known, or should she follow her heart and the woman she loves, perpetuating her family's cycle of exile? Betty finds her answer in partially translated notebooks that reveal her aunt's complex life and struggle with her own sexuality, which Nuha hid to help the family immigrate to the United States. But, as Betty soon discovers, her aunt hid much more than that." --Publisher.

Domestic fiction.

2SLGBTQIA+ fiction.

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