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Book Review: Hiding in Plain Sight by Nuradin Farah

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After Aar had an argument with his wife Valarie who decided to join to the lesbian community, Aar asked his friends in Kenya to take care of the two kids Salif and Dahaba and he went to Mogadishu as UN staff. After terrorists attack in the UN compound of Mogadishu shortened the life of Aar, his sister- Bella, who is in Italy is mourning and soon travels to Kenya to take care of the kids whose mother has already left and now watching the death of their beloved father. Besides, Bella has no parenting skills, she still manages to raise her nephew and niece successfully. Salif and Dahaba are endowed with intelligence and smartness that they inherited from their father who singlehandedly raised them. Among the many other characters that light up in the book are Fatima who is a cancer survivor and her husband Mahdi and Also Gunilla who is Aar’s colleague and lover. Bella’s most challenging party of raising kids starts when Valarie starts to claim the maternal rights of the kids