Nayir interprets Katya’s professional confidence as brazen, even sinful, but they are drawn together by the belief that Nouf’s official cause of death hides the truth (also hidden is the fact that she was pregnant). After Nouf is found dead in the desert, Nayir meets medical examiner Katya Hijazi, who is engaged to marry Nouf’s brother. What he learns about Nouf and the other privileged Shrawi women contrasts with his view of the ideal woman as humble, modest and devout. He also hides behind rigid Islamic beliefs that emphasize how women lead men to sin. From the Bedouin he has learned to read the desert sands for information about landmarks, changes in the weather and prey. Palestinian by birth, Nayir embraces the Bedouin culture that most Saudis claim as their birthright but have abandoned for a materialistic urban lifestyle. Her brother Othman hires desert guide and tracker Nayir al-Sharqi to find her. Nouf ash-Shrawi, the 16-year-old daughter of a wealthy Saudi family, has disappeared shortly before her much-anticipated marriage. Shifting desert sands and shifting attitudes reveal the complexities-and hypocrisy-of Saudi life.
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