Staircase of a Thousand Steps by Masha Hamilton
 Jammana, a young girl in a Middle Eastern desert village, can recall the memories of others. Seeking the meaning of her visions of the past, she uncovers such secrets as her grandfather's secret passion for the village midwife, the midwife's guilty wish that Jammana's mother hadn't been born, and the identity of the midwife's murderer. As Jammana struggles to understand the adults' secrets, she unwittingly sows the seeds of her family's destruction. Focusing on themes of love, betrayal, friendship, and duty, Hamilton shows how each generation's decisions create a web that ensnares the next. The prose is simple but elegant, and subtle interweaving of the mystical and the mundane makes the novel delightfully compelling. Details
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