In this book, published in 2013, author Hanan Bairouti pens a collection of texts about her relationship with her mother and family—a bond overflowing with warmth, intimacy, and emotion. These texts are filled with a narrative beauty that blends poetry and prose, crafted in innovative and robust forms with meticulous attention to language, expressing heartfelt feelings about loss, absence, sensitivity, and nostalgia for people, places, and life.

With ambitious rhetorical skill in describing and examining events and situations lingering in memory, Bairouti gives her pen free rein. With a discerning command of linguistic aesthetics and diverse knowledge, she delves into history and its events, redrawing the tales of its characters, intertwined with the heritage of Arabic poetry—evoking the grains of desert sand, the journeys of camel caravans, and the poems of Al-A'sha and Imru' al-Qais inscribed on leather.