Book Summary

This book is about an eighteen year old girl, Ebla, who runs away after she discovers that she has been promised to marry an older man. She escapes to a nearby village from her nomadic community. Once in the city, she soon learns that her cousin arranges for her to marry another man. So she decided to choose her own mate and flees to another city with a man she had only met five to ten days earlier. Seven days after Ebla's marriage, she finds herself alone and helpless, when her husband, Awill, got a three month business assignment in Italy. She befriends a lady named Asha in the apartment where she lives. Later she learns that her husband had an affair with an Italian woman. Asha convinces Ebla to seek revenge by marrying someone else and she marries Tiffo. Tiffo doesn't tell Ebla about his marriage of eighteen years until after they are married and Ebla is simply reduced to being his harlot. While contemplating about her life, she realized that she was powerless and decided to take control of herself and her life. First, she told Asha to stay out of her business and then she told Tiffo that she too was married and she wanted a divorce. Upon her first husbands return, she has the courage to confront him about his affair and maybe they lived happily ever after.