Things Are Good Now

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Open - No Protection

Publication Year:
2018

ISBN-13: 9781487001919

<p><strong>Set in East Africa, the Middle East, Canada, and the U.S.,</strong><strong> <i>Things Are Good Now</i></strong><strong> examines the weight of the migrant experience on the human psyche. </strong></p><p>In Djamila Ibrahim’s powerful story collection, women, men, and children who’ve crossed continents in search of a better life find themselves struggling with the chaos of displacement and the religious and cultural clashes they face in their new homes. A maid who travelled to the Middle East lured by the prospect of a well-paying job is trapped in the Syrian war. A female ex-freedom fighter immigrates to Canada only to be relegated to cleaning public washrooms and hospital sheets. A disillusioned civil servant struggles to come to grips with his lover’s imminent departure. A young Muslim Canadian woman who’d married her way to California realizes she’s made a mistake.</p><p><i>Things Are Good Now</i> is about remorse and the power of memory, and about the hardships of a post-9/11 reality that labels many as suspicious or dangerous because of their names or skin colour alone. Most importantly, it’s about the compromises we make to belong.</p>