LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION, BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK PRIZE, AND THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD - A BOOKLIST BEST BOOK OF 2023 - Set in the Arab immigrant enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, following three siblings coming of age over the course of one Ramadan, 'a moving look at family, survival, and celebration' (Hanif Abdurraqib, author of A Little Devil in America). 'A gorgeously written and profoundly intimate debut.' --Etaf Rum, author of New York Times bestseller A Woman Is No Man It's the holy month of Ramadan, and twin sisters Amira and Lina are about to graduate high school in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. On the precipice of adulthood, they plan to embark on a summer of teenage revelry, trying on new identities and testing the limits of what they can get away with while still under their parents' roof. But the twins' expectations of a summer of freedom collide with their older brother's return from prison, whose mysterious behavior threatens to undo the
