Sonora

In National Book Award finalist Hannah Lillith Assadi’s (Paradiso 17) fevered, lyrical debut, the daughter of a Palestinian-Israeli couple forms an intoxicating friendship with Laura, a Mexican American girl, against the haunted landscape of the Sonoran Desert and a blur of New York City nights.

Ahlam grows up in the arid suburbs outside Phoenix, where coyotes prowl and mysterious lights occasionally cross the night sky. Isolated and plagued by fever dreams, she retreats into a world of her ...