Floodlines: A Novel Janet Skeslien Charles Gabriel has returned to the

Gabriel has returned to the village with his young son Leo

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Floodlines: A Novel Janet Skeslien Charles Gabriel has returned to theSet between London and Baghdad, Saleem Haddads brilliant second novel is a sweeping, multigenerational tale of art, exile, memory, and the enduring legacies of war. In the summer of 2014, three long estranged Iraqi British sisters are pulled back into each others orbit by the rediscovery of their late fathers long lost paintings. Beautiful, elusive Zainab; embittered, practical Mediha; and headstrong, queer Ishtar each lay claim to their fathers