What Is a City Worth When You Are Not There?

About this book

Estrangement does not always begin with migration. Sometimes it arrives when a beloved person leaves and the soul no longer recognizes the place it inhabits. Engy El-Sheemy El-Kholy builds this reflective work around a haunting question: what value can a city retain when the person who gave it meaning is no longer there? The result is an intimate exploration of absence, memory and the geography of grief.