REVIEW: History, identity and conflict overflow in ‘The Book of Queens’

CHICAGO: From award-winning author and journalist, Joumana Haddad, comes a story overflowing with history, identity and conflict in “The Book of Queens.” From the end of the 19th century, the novel moves across four generations of women Qayah, Qana, Qadar, and Qamar. They have suffered and survived expulsion, occupation, civil war, and sectarian violence that moves them to Turkey, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon. From Qayah to Qamar, each woman has forged her path through war zones and survived, despite the overwhelming loss they each have encountered.