Karima Ahdad is a journalist and author from the city of El Hoceima, Morocco, who worked as a journalist and digital content editor for several newspapers and websites in Morocco, Turkey and Germany. Her first novel, Cactus Girls, was published in 2018 and won the 2019 Mohamed Zefzaf prize. Her 2014 short story collection The Last Hemorrhage of the Dream was awarded the prize for best young author from the Moroccan Writers鈥� Union, and her second novel Turkish Dream has been published by Al Markaz Thakafi Al Arabi (2021).
I loved this novel - it is fresh, original and compelling. It tells the story of a Moroccan family plunged suddenly into poverty when the father dies, and his widow and daughters lose their house because of Moroccan inheritance law. It's written in first person in the voices of the five women, each a very different character. It's a novel about poverty, injustice, and survival that deserves to be read in English.