TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aboulela,Leila
TI  - Bird summons
SN  - 9780802149152
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Black Cat
KW  - Muslim women
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Automobile travel
KW  - Self-realization
KW  - Magic realism (Literature)
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Magic realist fiction
KW  - Psychological fiction
N1  - "First published in Great Britain in 2019 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group Ltd."--Title page verso
N2  - "When Salma, Moni, and Iman-friends and active members of their local Muslim Women's group-decide to take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, they leave behind lives often dominated by obligation, frustrated desire, and dull predictability. Each wants something more out of life, but fears the cost of taking it. Salma is successful and happily married, but tempted to risk it all when she's contacted by her first love back in Egypt; Moni gave up a career in banking to care for her disabled son without the help of her indifferent husband; and Iman, in her twenties and already on her third marriage, longs for the freedom and autonomy she's never known. When the women are visited by the Hoopoe, a sacred bird from Muslim and Celtic literature, they are compelled to question their relationships to faith and femininity, love, loyalty, and sacrifice"--
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