Brooklyn Heights, the fourth novel by award-winning Egyptian author Miral El-Tahawy, revolves around the character of Hend, an Arabic teacher and would-be writer in her late thirties, who emigrates to the United States from Cairo with her eight year old son after the painful break-up of her marriage.
The fourth novel by award-winning Egyptian author Miral El-Tahawy, revolves around the character of Hend, an Arabic teacher and would-be writer in her late thirties, who emigrates to the United States from Cairo with her eight-year-old son after the painful break-up of her marriage. She arrives in Brooklyn during the 2008 presidential elections, dreaming of change, self-fulfillment and love. Through the shared experiences of other immigrant women in her community, Hend begins an odyssey of self-discovery shaped by her memories of her childhood and coming of age during a dramatically changing political era in Egypt.
