Foretokens by Sarah Howe #joyce and the world around us

and the world around us

Middle Eastern

exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe

find ourselves in others and create ourselves anew

Foretokens by Sarah Howe #joyce and the world around usUnearthed in a clear out, a picture calendar shes kept hoarding, Ive learnt, is a mark of the emigrant across continents and time. So begins Sarah Howes extraordinary new collection, returning to the riddle of belonging she explored in her award winning debut, Loop of Jade. At the heart is her own mothers clouded past: abandoned as a baby and taken in, at the turbulent dawn of Communist China, by a woman with her own hidden motives. Now a mother