My mother's mice

Author's name: Saud Al-Sanousi

Novelist Saud Alsanousi wrote in *Mother Hessa's Mice*, a realistic text from the heart of life, engineering it as a puzzle scattered throughout the corridors of the past. As the novel's slogan states, "The mice are coming, protect the people from the plague," referring to this sectarian scourge that has spread through the arteries and souls of its people, its wrath reaching everything with the wars that have befallen the region since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, through the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988, then the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, then the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, arriving at the hypothetical time in which the novel unfolds, where a deadly plague spreads, oil prices plummet, and the fuse of civil war is ignited.