BOOK CLUB February 2025 Selection

Ghost Season by Fatin Abbas from Sudan, is a sweeping history of the breakup of Sudan and takes you to Saraaya, a fictional town rich with crude oil, located at the border of Sudan and South Sudan.

Abbas was born in Khartoum where she experienced the upheaval of the 1989 coup that forced her family to move to New York City. But, her ties to Sudan remained strong, and she drew from these experiences, particularly her time in the town of Abyei, in crafting the world of Saraaya, a place of quiet mystery and tension. into the lives of  five strangers in an NGO compound on the border between Sudan and South Sudan.

This novel  is a “gripping, vivid debut that announces Abbas as a powerful new voice in fiction”.