Sonora, Hannah Lillith Assadi
Sonora, Hannah Lillith Assadi
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Sonora

Author: Hannah Lillith Assadi

Narrator: Soneela Nankani

Unabridged: 6 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/28/2017


Synopsis

Based on true events, Hannah Assadi's fierce and raging debut novel tracks the shattered, illuminated psyche of a young woman seizing her own adulthood Ahlam, the daughter of a Palestinian refugee and his Israeli wife, grows up in the arid lands of desert suburbia outside of Phoenix. In a stark landscape where coyotes prowl and mysterious lights occasionally pass through the nighttime sky, Ahlam's imagination reigns. She battles chronic fever dreams and isolation. When she meets her tempestuous counterpart Laura, the two fall into infatuated partnership, experimenting with drugs and sex, and watching helplessly as a series of mysterious deaths claim high school classmates. The girls flee their pasts for New York City, but as their emotional bond heightens, the intensity of their lives becomes unbearable. In search of love, ecstasy, oblivion, and belonging, Ahlam and Laura's drive to outrun the ghosts of home threatens to undo them altogether.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rob

Surreal, heady and intoxicating in the most sublime of ways, Hannah Asadi’s SONORA is a coming-of-age tale of an entirely different form. A road novel without the road; a journey of discovery that exposes the powerful and paradoxical nature of home – that its inescapability can be both haunting and......more

Goodreads review by Jesse

This hypnotic novel is told to you like a secret, feverish and strange and achingly beautiful. The stunning mystery of what it means to be a living thing in this land is explored in dreamscapes, drugscapes, landscapes and cityscapes. There is a haunted bravery to its dark gaze, that is matched only......more