Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the boo
Sarah is on the brink of adulthood in her village in the mountains of Lebanon in the 1930s, a world hesitating on the verge of change. Her father the shaykh is uninterested in anything but the silkwo
The four interlocking narratives that make up this novel belong to four women who live in the same building in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war. There is Lilian with her two children, desperate t
