Gulf

Told through a prism of female voices, this cinematic novel follows five women of vastly different origins-from the Philippines to Ethiopia to New York City-whose lives bring them to the Arabian Gulf, where they collide with devastating and profound consequences.

Dounia, a young Saudi mother, finds herself alienated in a desolate, post-weather, air-conditioned modernist box and decides to rebel against all forms of domesticity. Flora, a Filipina domestic worker haunted by the flood that clai...