A sweeping, immersive portrait of a never-ending Nakba, Dreams of Ayn Ara follows the scattered Abu Sukkar family across generations and continents. From Stockholm to Paris, each member grapples with exile, memory, and fracture, while matriarch Zahra fights to hold them together. Guided by voices from beyond the grave and the strange intimacies of Facebook, Salwa searches for a way back to Ayn Ara, their ancestral home in Palestine. Sara Abou Ghazal’s English-language debut, translated by Katharine Halls, traces the enduring aftershocks of 1948, revealing how displacement reverberates across time, denying Palestinians not only a homeland, but a future.
