Letters of Isis

About this book

In the bustle of days resembling one another, we are sometimes born as repeated copies, wearing faces not resembling us, and repeating words not sprung from our hearts, fearing to be branded with "shame" if we one day decide to be ourselves. "Letters of Isis" is no mere novel, but a stifled scream in the face of a society seeing customs as holy books, and seeing in difference a madness that must be curbed. The story begins with Mariam, that woman who suddenly found herself before a choice with no third: either remain a prisoner of a toxic relationship feeding on her soul under the name of "continuity," or brave the unknown carrying her dream bags to Cairo, leaving behind all that hurt her. And in the heart of this transformation, destinies intersect for Mariam to find an old box wafting the scent of the past, holding the memoirs and letters of a woman called Mariam from 1975. Between the lines of those letters addressed to "Isis," the symbol of motherhood and protection, Mariam discovers that women's pains resemble one another however the years differ, and that strength.