Sun day

Did my mother foresee her own death the day she wrote my name in red? Did she want to die so that children would be free of death? Did she want to run to what awaited her, to know the truth: where would we go, and what had become of those she loved? I don't care; I haven't thought about death, my own death. But despite my loneliness and my hardened relationship with those closest to me, I saw in death a liberation from a fundamental right to existence, a right that could be clung to even when it was forcibly taken from me, but also from everything: my right to be a daughter, to have a mother like everyone else. The first time period depicts the Lebanese Civil War, where the protagonist tries to remember her story with her mother, who left her to marry someone other than her father and settled in Japan, before returning to Beirut. The second time period depicts the present, where the protagonist has romantic relationships with people involved in this war she curses. From time to time, the mother is killed, leaving behind a painting for her daughter, who has become an artist like her. As a result, while searching for the missing painting, the daughter also seeks her mother's killer, having spent her childhood longing for her mother's affection. The novel's strength lies in its plot, where the culprit remains unknown until the very last pages.