This is beautifully written, and I liked the changing perspectives... it's the story of essentially three generations of a family, plus various in-laws and attendants, living in the same house for the most part. Chapters are relatively short, and cycle through the various characters, showing their experiences and changing relationships over time.

There's nothing terribly dramatic going on; the various storylines are generally all very domestic and intersect in a number of ways. It's very much a slice-of-life kind of book, and the real interest for me lies in seeing how people live in what is a very different society than the one I'm used to, predominantly set as it is in an Omani village. That being said, while I appreciate the meandering nature of the storytelling here - I don't think a more cohesive narrative was actually necessary; I liked how it wandered - I do think the ending could have been stronger. I realise that slice-of-life stories don't always have the kind of heavily structured narrative that lends itself to a strong conclusion, and that can work, but this sort of petered out for me towards the end.