Without Sugar

<p><strong>Without Sugar</strong> is a story told in poems a journey every reader has tasted in their own way. It begins in the sweetness of childhood-four spoons in a father's tea a jar of jam simmering on the stove a world that feels safe and sugared. But sweetness has its limits. It fades it disguises it sometimes deceives.</p><p> </p><p>These poems move through memory and loss through the delicate bond between parent and child until what remains is the bare taste of truth. With images as simple as a cup left unsweetened and as complex as love itself Israa Hussein invites us to reflect on our own aftertaste: what lingers when innocence thins when illusions dissolve when words finally stand without disguise.</p><p> </p><p>This book belongs to anyone-parent child or dreamer-who has ever discovered that what is honest is not always sweet and that living without sugar may be the clearest way to live at all.</p>