Masks

In Muharraq, on an island that requires bridges to be part of the world, Sayf has built a life that works: a marriage that is honest if not easy, a garage that was his father's before it was his, and a faith practiced without performance. He is thirty-one years old and fixes engines for a living.

Then his cousin calls from Salt, Jordan, barely able to speak, and the life Sayf has built begins to measure itself against everything outside it.

Hussain has been watching the men who killed their u...