ABOUT THE BOOK : Therese, a Franco-Lebanese, lives in Sandwich, Illinois. She decides one night to slam the door without returning back. Now that she is 37 years old, she questions her choices: leaving her home country and following her husband to the United States. Her exile, her husband’s career and the establishing of her own family kept her busy for ten years. Today, her nostalgia pushes the woman to question all those choices, for better or for worse.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Pauline Mouhanna Karroum is a bilingual journalist and writes regularly for the magazines Jeune Afrique, Inside Arabia and for the newspaper l’Orient le Jour. Her first novel She Lived in Sandwich was published in France in 2020, by Editions du Panthéon, in Paris. She teaches French at the Alliance Francaise of Washington DC. Pauline grew up in Lebanon. After her studies in Political Science and a master’s degree in…