The Flood of History in “No One Prayed Over Their Graves” – Chicago Review of Books

The Flood of History in “No One Prayed Over Their Graves” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In 1907, an unrelenting rainstorm hit the fictional town of Hosh Hanna, triggering a massive flood that swept through its streets. The flood took everything with it: houses collapsed, livestock died, and all but two people, who desperately clung to a walnut tree, drowned. The story of the flood that swallows this small Syrian … Read more