Cakes of Exile: Short Stories

About this book

How often does certainty collapse when a familiar moment is viewed from the other side? In Cakes of Exile, Dr. Shaimaa Raslan structures each story as a carefully matched pair: one perspective appears complete, while the second overturns it and exposes what silence had concealed. Encounters, departures, chosen motherhood, interrupted fatherhood, and the traces left by passing lives come together in an intimate exploration of estrangement. This psychologically attentive collection looks beyond exile from a homeland to the more painful distances that can grow within a family, a relationship, or the self.