![]() Now Nayir, a gentle and pious Palestinian living in Saudi Arabia, must delve into Nouf's secret life-no easy task in one of the world's most rigidly gender-segregated societies. ![]() Though her family is suspiciously uninterested in getting at the truth, Nayir is determined to find out what happened. But even more unsettling is that she died not of dehydration but from drowning. The coroner determines that she was several weeks pregnant. ![]() Ten days later, Nouf's body is discovered. When sixteen-year-old Nouf ash-Shrawi goes missing, her prominent family calls on desert guide Nayir al-Sharqi to lead a search party. ![]() investigates the death of a pregnant Saudi teenager in a mystery that offers " a fascinating glimpse into the workings.of Saudi society" ( Publishers Weekly). ![]()
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