Mother of all pigs

By Malu Halasa

Subjects: Women -- Family relationships -- Middle East -- Fiction, Women, Family secrets, Butchers -- Fiction, Women -- Middle East -- Social conditions -- Fiction, Jordan -- Fiction, Middle east, fiction, Syria -- Fiction, Butchers, Fiction, family life, Fiction, Family relationships, Family secrets -- Fiction, Social conditions

Description: Hussein Saban, the only pig butcher in his small Jordanian town, lives with three generations of women. Regrets, dreams, and clandestine pasts in love, politics, and even espionage threaten the order in the household as generations clash. When a long-lost soldier from Hussein's military past arrives, the Sabas family must decide whether to protect or expose him, bringing long-simmering rivalries and injustices to the surface.