Abdullah is unable to cope with his wife’s anger and resentment and detaches himself from his first love and children to be with Isra, his second wife. Her hurt and disappointment lead her into a downward spiral where nothing matters except her pain. The story begins with Rosalie’s discovery of her beloved husband Abdullah’s secret marriage of two years to a Saudi Arabian-born woman. Parssinen spins a beautiful story about Rosalie (an expatriate), her husband Abdullah, their children Mariam and Faisal, and their friend Dan. Born in Saudi Arabia and having lived there for twelve years as a third generation expatriate, Parssinen’s writing brings the intensity of the country’s political and cultural world to the reader’s doorstep, inviting readers to step into a world of lightness and darkness as she unveils one family’s unraveling and isolation. Keija Parssinen’s first novel, The Ruins of Us, is a story about a family’s fall from harmony into discord set in Saudi Arabia.
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