YASMEEN

Yasmeen Khalil is beautiful and charming. She is also unpredictable enigmatic funny and tragic. One day she vanishes leaving behind a heartbroken husband and a desolate daughter. Irenie refuses to accept that Yasmeen is gone; she haunts the house with the scents and sounds of her dazzling mother in an effort to maintain the illusion of her presence.Five years after her mother's disappearance Irenie discovers a box of letters beautiful intimate love letters which reveal a different Yasmeen a woman who all her life was in love with a man named Ahmed. Why did the two never get together? What really happened to Yasmeen? On a quest for answers that she suspects her father James has long suppressed she travels to Islamabad where she uncovers a trove of secrets for which she may not be ready. Over the course of a summer father and daughter find that they must help each other move out of Yasmeen's shadow and forge their own stories.Simultaneously shattering and uplifting this is a sophisticated debut about obsessive love family ties and a desperate search for closure.