THE FORTY RULES OF LOVE by Elif Shafak Hiro Arikawa each day is a desperate

each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive

a young girl from a Brazilian village

A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk

Before long

THE FORTY RULES OF LOVE by Elif Shafak Hiro Arikawa each day is a desperateIn this lyrical, exuberant Tale, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reese's Book Club Pick), incarnates Rumi's timeless message of love The Forty Rules of Love unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz that together explore the enduring power of Rumi's