Sweetness In The Belly

Born to hippie British parents then raised at a Sufi shrine in Morocco after they are murdered, Lilly grows up amid the serenity of mystical Islam. As a young woman, she goes on a pilgrimage to the walled city of Harar, Ethiopia, where she builds a life teaching the Qu'ran to children and falls in love with an idealistic doctor. But even in a traditional headscarf, Lilly is always marked as a foreigner. And when she is forced to flee Ethiopia for England, she must once again confront the riddle of who she is and where she belongs. Sweetness in the Belly is an intoxicating tour de force about memory and exile.