“…A relationship both forbidden and illicit comes this cautionary heart-throb about two daring and naive lovers who follow their hearts despite their fear of becoming outcasts…”
Some quotes from the book:
“Maybe tonight I’ll get to listen to my conservative parents discuss whether or not sitting side by side is halal. Or idolize my virginity in front of everyone like I am some sort of prized cow.”
“Holding her behind a closed door while looking through the cracked blinds I feel what she feels. Having to love in the dark where no one else can see. The only place where she can really say what she feels.”
“Bathing in her scent her Al-Khazneh-tinged skin presses against my body as we fall hopelessly to a bottomless love. Every hidden gem of hers loved by my lips. Feeling all of her all at once as her body moves like the northern lights––the aurora borealis. Our hands exchanging hearts like intimate letters that have traveled over seas.”
“Holding her smooth hands and fingers warm she says my name without saying a single word. Speaking to me with those soft soul-stirring eyes that ask for nothing more except for my love.”
On the back of the book cover:
Explicitly sensual and verbally mystifying this untold love story expands the reaches and possibilities of the written word with new and exciting layers of storytelling. A relationship both forbidden and illicit comes this cautionary heart-throb about two daring and naive lovers who follow their hearts despite their fear of becoming outcasts.
Sexually powerful and lyrically bending the imagination with life-like beauty ARABALA is the kind of love story that you wish someone would finally tell. Visually stimulating and texturally rich this beautiful and brutal labyrinth of love effortlessly expresses a wild and sensual vivaciousness. Extremely intelligent with lyrical prose that read like a meditation this aphrodisiacal tale and rebellious love is bedeviling and bewitching.
An excruciatingly cruel and absolutely perfect torment teeming with angst and taut with every convincing fear that is close to the heart.