Our international book suggestion for this month is The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri. The novel follows three Swedish-Tunisian sisters from childhood into adulthood as their lives diverge across Sweden, Tunisia, and the United States. Moving across decades, it examines how family ties, cultural identity, and personal choices shape who they become.
Along the way, Khemiri plays with perspective and storytelling itself, weaving in an enigmatic narrator whose relationship to the sisters raises questions about memory, authorship, and the act of shaping other people’s lives into narrative.