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May 04, 2017JenRaw rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Mazigh's promise of revolution fizzles out. Read the whole review here http://bit.ly/2p90a8W Hope Has Two Daughters by Monia Mazigh follows two young women, mother and daughter, as they face revolution and civil unrest 30 years apart. Nadia, in 1984, studies hard in school to better her life and make her parents proud when the so-called couscous riots begin, changing her life and her self, forever. In late 2010, Nadia’s daughter Lila is staying with her mother’s best friends Neila and Mounir, while working to improve her Arabic when she meets Donia, a wealthy young revolutionary whose unhappiness with the status quo is infectious. Monia Mazigh knows a thing or two about revolution, having lived through the Tunisian bread riots in the 1980s. She is most famous for her relentless campaigning to return to husband to Canada after the US government deported him to Syria in 2002. Her experiences during this period of unrest and her emigration to Canada inform Hope Has Two Daughters. The novel definitely feels personal.