Hannah Assadi's fierce and raging debut novel tracks the shattered, illuminated psyche of a young woman seizing her own adulthood
There has been a series of premature deaths among the teenage population in Scottsdale, Arizona. Ahlam, the daughter of a Palestinian refugee and his Israeli wife, battles chronic fever dreams and isolation. When she meets her tempestuous counterpart Laura, the two fall into infatuated partnership, experimenting with drugs and sex until they execute a plan to escape to New York City. Sonora is an ode to youth's obsessions and delusions, with the ultimate revelation that, no matter far we run, we are ever rejoined by the phantom of the past.
