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The Long Arrival
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $19.99
Publisher: Benito Books
Published: Oct 13 2026
Pages: 324
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The hardest part of arriving is the life that comes after.
Karim Haddad was twenty-nine when he left Aleppo. He is forty-four now, a licensed architect in Detroit, his name on a new building downtown -- fifteen years of rebuilding a life on the ruins of the old one. He has a second marriage, to Anna Cole, the architect who saw his future in his napkin sketches; a daughter, Lina, born in Michigan; and his mother, Salma, brought over through family reunification -- three generations under one Detroit roof.
And then there is Omar: the younger brother who stayed. Who survived the war by becoming part of it, who called across fifteen years asking which brother had betrayed the other -- and who finally gets out in 2025, arriving broken into the middle of the family Karim has built.
Spanning 2011 to 2026, from Aleppo to Dearborn to Detroit, The Long Arrival is literary fiction about what it costs to begin again -- and about the family that forms, across loss and time, from the people who choose each other.
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