As New.201 pages; A Russian beauty, her dead Moroccan husband, and a tiny oasis of bizarre and untrustworthy characters conspire to make a fever dream of a novel in this rich debut . The Western Sahara desert is to some a void, others a refuge, and still others a home worth fighting for. Lili stumbles into the center of this exotic world as she escapes a husband she never wanted, even as he lies gasping in the sand next to his expensive car, his gold chains ripped from his neck.