A Test

About this book

Between the walls of sealed houses, there are tales told only in whispers and secrets stuck in their owners' throats like a choking lump that will not go. In the novel 'A Test,' Mona Al-Fouly takes us into the depths of the human struggle in the second part of the epic 'A Crime in the Name of Love,' where confrontation extends beyond laws and courts to test the soul's solidity and the heart's capacity to forgive or fall. Here we face 'Na'ma,' the woman who bore the burdens of others' cases in a divorced-women's shelter, to find herself suddenly facing a personal 'test' shaking her being; when past and present threads tangle and she discovers sacrifice is not always a road to salvation. Does love alone suffice to mend the rifts betrayal leaves? And can blood bonds withstand the hurricanes of selfishness and greed? The novel skillfully weaves the human psyche's fluctuations between 'Mahmoud's' nobility and containment, 'Saleh's' floundering and gray positions, and 'Mahi's' struggles between her independence and her mother's pressures. 'A Test' is.