Title: Pillars of Salt
First published: 1996
Description: A novel on the lot of Arab women. Set in Jordan in the 1940s, the protagonists are two women in a mental hospital who exchange stories. One is a mother of eight who was repudiated by her husband so he could marry a younger woman. By a Jordanian writing in English, author of Nisanit.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Psychiatric hospital patients, Fiction, Sociallife and customs, Female friendship, Exile (Punishment), Women, Women patients, Fiction, family life, Fiction, psychological, Middle east, fiction
Places: Jordan, Arab countries
LC classification: PR9570.J653 F356 1997