My Dear Life

About this book

When loss strikes us with its decisive blow, the mind may choose to deny the entire reality to protect the heart from shattering; so we fashion from the specters of the departed a warm presence filling our cold rooms, and continue to live in a mirage we shelter in from the cruelty of truth. Thus Hayat, the young, brilliant media figure with her captivating presence, finds herself trapped between a dazzling professional success in the world of limelight and a memory quietly eroding behind the walls of a dark hospital. Writer Fairouz Mohamed takes us in her touching novel "My Dear Life" into the depths of psychological trauma and the denial of death; the heroine clings to the specter of her late mother Anisa, recalling her morning chats and the warmth of her motherly advice that formed her sole compass in existence. And as the conflict escalates between a family trying to hold together and a shock whose threads unravel slowly, Hayat's path crosses with that of Younes, her psychiatrist, whose eyes carry the memories of a pure childhood love that absence could not erase. A captivating human novel that plunges into the psychology of grief and loss, highlighting the value of family support and loyalty, to prove that however long the darkness lasts, the seeds of light remain latent in our souls, and that recovery is not forgetting the departed, but the ability to write a new letter of love to life and to begin anew.