“Did this really happen, or did I just imagine it all? Did I really fall in love with Karim al-Maliki, the famous actor, and he fell in love with me? English school? And if all this has happened, how can I sleep here now alone, watching his pictures on “Instagram”, while he is sleeping with his wife in their home?
Farah wakes up to start a defining day in her life. She will destroy the house in which she spent her childhood, leave the only man she loved with all her heart, deposit her mother in a nursing home, and then forcibly annul her daughter's wedding. Has “Farah” lost her mind, her heart, and her humanity, or is she trying to save herself and the one she loves from losing all of this?
A Tale of Joy is a novel about love, motherhood, freedom, and humanity that is swept away by the river of time.