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Wild Mulberries interweaves the coming of age tale of Sarah a young womangrowing up in a small Druze village in the Lebanese Shuf Mountains and thestory of this village itself especially its role in the production of silkworms. The women who make up the fabric of the village community tend to thesesilk worms. They are the focus of the book from Sarahs mother who disappearedwhen she was a young girl to her traditionallyminded paternal aunt who longsto be a shaykha to the spunky Mutia from Aleppo to her Armenian neighbor wholongs to go back to her ancestral home. This novel is both a psychological taleof some depth and also a revealing portrayal of the lives of silkgrowingvillagers in a period of economic depression in Lebanon. «
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