Salutation Road
Salma Ibrahim
- **‘We
- may
- look
- the
- same,
- but
- I
- am
- not
- you
- .
- .
- .
- We
- share
- nothing
- but
- a
- reflection
- in
- the
- mirror’'A
- bold,
- intriguing
- act
- of
- imagination'**
- -
- Aube
- Rey
- Lescure,
- Women's
- Prize-shortlisted
- author
- of
- River
- East,
- River
- West‘Beautiful,
- thought-provoking
- and
- meaningful’
- -
- Nussaibah
- Younis,
- author
- of
- FundamentallyTwenty-three-year-old
- Sirad
- Ali
- is
- a
- woman
- adrift.
- Abandoned
- by
- her
- father
- in
- childhood,
- doing
- her
- best
- to
- support
- her
- mother
- and
- younger
- brother
- in
- their
- small
- flat
- in
- South
- London,
- she
- can’t
- help
- but
- wonder
- if
- this
- is
- the
- life
- she
- really
- wants.One
- morning,
- Sirad
- boards
- her
- bus
- to
- work
- and
- finds
- herself
- transported
- to
- an
- alternate
- timeline
- in
- present-day
- Mogadishu.
- Over
- the
- course
- of
- a
- single
- day,
- under
- the
- sweltering
- East
- African
- sun,
- Sirad
- must
- contend
- with
- a
- lost
- reality.
- There
- she
- encounters
- an
- almost
- unrecognizable
- version
- of
- her
- family
- and
- comes
- face
- to
- face
- with
- her
- double,
- Ubah
- –
- the
- woman
- she
- could
- have
- been,
- had
- her
- parents
- never
- fled
- to
- London
- during
- the
- Somali
- Civil
- War.Back
- home
- in
- Greenwich,
- Sirad
- must
- go
- on
- with
- life,
- consumed
- by
- all
- she
- now
- knows.
- But
- then
- Ubah
- mysteriously
- appears
- in
- London,
- and
- Sirad
- begins
- to
- understand
- that
- nothing
- will
- ever
- be
- the
- same
- again
- .
- .
- .Salutation
- Road
- by
- Salma
- Ibrahim
- is
- a
- beautifully
- told
- literary
- debut
- for
- fans
- of
- Nadifa
- Mohamed
- and
- Mohsin Hamid.
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