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The Long Dawn
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Publisher Price: $24.99
ISBN13: 9781067613723
Publisher: Aethereal Stories
Published: Nov 12 2026
Pages: 562
Weight: 1.46
Height: 1.25 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
In Beirut, 1967, Maya Haddad adopted a daughter through unorthodox methods. Raised her anyway. Loved her anyway - through the war, through the years the girl said things she could not possibly have known, through the silence that grew once she left for good.
Twenty-nine years later, Eliana Haddad can touch a fossil and know the life that ended there. A name. A face. A morning millions of years before her own. She has known since she was a girl in a city under bombardment that this is not a thing to say aloud.
So she becomes a paleoanthropologist instead - ten years, ten field seasons, Ethiopia to Egypt - and lets her colleagues believe her gift is simply instinct.
Her mother calls less often now. Neither of them says why.
The search will end somewhere Eliana never expected, and send her home at last - to a kitchen table, a box her father left behind, and a woman who has been keeping a question for thirty-six years.
Spanning a decade across the great sites of prehistory, from the Afar valley to a Beirut apartment on the morning of 14 February 2005, The Long Dawn is a novel about inheritance, exile, and the terrible patience of those who love us.
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