The Orchid

About this book

Behind every orchid lies a story, and behind every story a life waiting to be told. In this collection, Ansam Abbas Al-Shibani moves between reality and imagination to create narratives shaped by everyday voices, human experience, and close observation. Her background as a teacher, mathematics researcher, reader, sculptor, and painter gives the volume a varied, mosaic-like sensibility. The stories seek courage within weakness, wisdom within disappointment, and hope in the small details people often overlook on their way toward a dream. Accessible to younger and older readers alike, the collection offers a new window in each tale through which to reconsider the self and see the surrounding world with greater humanity. The orchid becomes an emblem of stories that bloom from broken pieces of ordinary life.