Brooklyn Heights

This is a novel of displacement and discovery from one of Egypt's most exciting new voices. Brooklyn Heights, the fourth novel by award-winning Egyptian author Miral El-Tahawy, revolves around the character of Hend, an Arabic teacher and would-be writer in her late thirties, who emigrates to the United States from Cairo with her eight year old son after the painful break-up of her marriage. Hend and her son arrive in Brooklyn during the presidential elections of 2008. She dreams of change, self-fulfillment and the possibility of love. She becomes involved in the lives of other immigrant women in her community and through their shared experiences begins an odyssey of self-discovery shaped by her memories of childhood and of her coming of age during a dramatically changing political era in Egypt.