“This journey started at a time in my life when I felt incredibly suffocated. I thought that the world I worked in had too many rules, was too one-dimensional and anxious, and that as a human being I couldn't fit. So I chose to create my own world where I got to hang out with people I knew myself in, ”Gina Dirawi writes.
The book follows Mona, Mila and Nour, three women who are struggling to take control of their lives in a world that constantly opposes them. The story takes place both in Norrland and in a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut.
“I am absolutely in love with the characters I created, because they got to be everything. Rebellious, religious, sexual, adorable, strong, fragile, secretive, good and evil and damn funny and uplifting at the same time, "she writes.