Somebody Loves You by Mona Arshi Holland Park Press Moving between that America and

Moving between that America and her present 'Home from Home’ in Ireland

swiftly deleted texts and briefly snatched weekends

of the artist’s moral and imaginative engagement with the world as it actually is

‘By turns funny

I’m in love with this book

Somebody Loves You by Mona Arshi Holland Park Press Moving between that America andA teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, knowing with perfect certainty that nothing would ever come out again. Ruby gives up talking at a young age. Her mother isnt always there to notice; she comes and goes and goes and comes, until, one day, she doesnt. Silence becomes Rubys refuge, sheltering her from the weather of her mothers mental illness and a pressurized suburban atmosphere. Plangent,