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Hope has two daughters / Monia Mazigh ; Fred A. Reed, translator.

by Mazigh, Monia.

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Arachnide, House of Anansi Press Inc., 2017.

Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.

Women immigrants -- Fiction.

Children of immigrants -- Fiction.

Tunisians -- Canada -- Fiction.

Tunisia -- History -- Fiction.

9781487001803 (trade pbk.)

Du pain et du jasmin. English English

289 p. ; 21 cm.

Translated from the French.

"Unwilling to endure a culture of silence and submission, and disowned by her family, Nadia leaves her native Tunisia in 1984 amidst deadly violence, chaos, and rioting brought on by rising food costs, eventually emigrating to Canada to begin her life. More than twenty-five years later, Nadia’s daughter Lila reluctantly travels to Tunisia to learn about her mother’s birth country. While she’s there, she connects with Nadia’s childhood friends, Neila and Mounir. She uncovers agonizing truths about her mother’s life as a teenager and imagines what it might have been like to grow up in fear of political instability and social unrest. As she is making these discoveries, protests over poor economic conditions and lack of political freedom are increasing, and soon, Lila finds herself in the midst of another revolution--one that will inflame the country and change the Arab world, and her, forever. Weaving together the voices of two women at two pivotal moments in history, the Tunisian Bread Riots in 1984 and the Jasmine Revolution in 2010, Hope Has Two Daughters is a bracing, vivid story that perfectly captures life inside revolution."--From publisher.

Historical fiction.

Literary fiction.

Canadian fiction.

French-Canadian fiction -- Translations into English.

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