ABOUT
THE BOOK

In Berlin’s underground, where techno and drugs fill warehouses still pockmarked from the wars of the twentieth century, nineteen-year-old Nila finds her tribe. Born in Germany to Afghan parents, Nila has spent her adolescence disappointing her family while searching for her voice as a young woman and artist.

Then Nila meets American writer Marlowe. As she finds herself pulled into his seductive but controlling orbit, ugly racial tensions begin to roil through Germany – and Nila’s family and community. After a year of running from her future, Nila stops to ask herself the most important question: Who does she want to be?