Meriema

Meriema Idris leaves Ethiopia with a single promise: she will return home only after changing her family's life.In a luxury Gulf apartment far from Dire Dawa's crowded streets and morning prayers, she becomes part of a world built on silence, routine, and invisible labor. Each month, the money she sends home transforms her family's future — repairing roofs, restoring dignity, reopening possibilities once buried by poverty.But while her sacrifices slowly rescue the people she loves, exile begins reshaping her from within.As memories of home mingle with loneliness, faith, and the quiet exhaustion of survival, Meriema must confront a painful truth: some journeys return the body, but not the same person who left.Lyrical, intimate, and emotionally restrained, Meriema is a literary novel about migration, womanhood, sacrifice, faith, and the hidden emotional cost of survival.