Their vacation destination isn’t a resort or even a hotel in a city, but a desolate village deep in the mountains, with no running water or other necessities. Her parents are from Yemen, but the family lives in Wales Eve has spent her entire life in Britain, and we learn later that her father had been there for forty years. When the story begins, fourteen-year-old Eve is on family vacation to Yemen. I can usually read a 400-page book in a few days or a week at most, but this story was so sad (especially in this current political climate!) that I had to limit my reading to a few chapters at a time. When a Bulbul Sings is a heartbreaking novel about a woman who was forced into marriage at fourteen years old and her subsequent struggles to obtain a divorce and gain her freedom, which ultimately took over a decade. o you like its sound? They say when a bulbul sings it’s to forget all its problems, because when it sings the sound fills its head with beautiful thoughts so there’s no room left for its worries, but its song can also make people forget their problems too.”
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