Stations of anger

"Salwa: And because I know this truth... I was not tempted by the hardness that surrounded me. As soon as the shell is cut, the soft truth appears. Major General Yousry Saleh: There is nothing I am waiting for, and everything that happened and what will happen is a result, and the reasons were planted years ago, in secret or in public. "There is nothing I am waiting for, and what I am waiting for does not arrive before it arrives." *** This is the novel of the present moment... a family whose members do not know balance, so they stand on opposite sides of either rebellion and anger or submission and surrender, and each one pays the price. They fear failure, but brokenness is the trap they fall into. The fates of the characters intersect with the fate of the nation at critical political and social moments, where love mixes with betrayal, motherhood with helplessness, certainty with doubt, faith with atheism, and anger mixed with pain forms awareness of life. Moments of anger, in the voices of its characters, alternate between adventure, confusion, anticipation, and travel