Lullaby of the Burning City

In 1975 Lebanon, Christian girl Nelly falls for a Muslim boy. Her brother kills him. Pregnant, she births a son in secret — her grandmother brands his ankle with a hot ring and sends him away.Nelly becomes a war correspondent, survives a massacre, and assassinates the militia commander who ordered it. Arrested, she spends fifteen years in prison. A guard named "the Jackal" rapes her repeatedly. She births twins in her cell.Years later, freed and silent, Nelly sees a branded ankle in a swimming pool. The Jackal is alive. And he is the son she lost.Some wars never end.