SAVAGE TONGUES

Its summer when Arezu, an Iranian American teenager, goes to Spain to meet her estranged father at an apartment he owns there. He n ever shows up, instead sending her a weekly allowance, care of his step-nephew, Omar, a forty-year-old Lebanese man. As the weeks pr ogress, Arezu is drawn into a mercurial, charged, and ultimately catastrophic affair with Omar, a relationship that shatters her jus t at the cusp of adulthood.Two decades later, Arezu inherits the apartment. She returns with her best friend, Ellie, an Israeli-Amer ican scho...[Read more]