The Night Counter

"An immigrant-ethnic cocktail laced with political oppression, but before shaking, [Alia Yunis] adds Scheherazade, the fabled storyteller who kept herself alive by distracting her tyrannical husband for a thousand and one nights." --Carolyn See, Washington Post  After 85 years, Fatima knows that she is dying because for the last 991 days she has been visited by the immortal storyteller from The   Arabian Nights , Scheherazade.  Just as Scheherazade spun magical stories f