I Think of You by Ahdaf Souief

These stories are about family, belonging, estrangement, and loneliness, and ultimately about being a woman and an expatriate. Souief conveys a sense of aloneness that can only come from someone who understand what it feels like to be a foreigner, not only in one's chosen country, but also in one's own family. The stories in this book are all about women, mostly mothers, living abroad. Some are Egyptian women living in England and others are English women living in Egypt. The words convey color, and sadness while remaining overtly simple.