For readers of Elif Shafak, Hisham Matar, and Kamila Shamsie

A sin she doesn't regret. A faith she can't abandon. A compass she can no longer read.

When a cryptic vision visits Aisha at twenty-two, it sets in motion a journey she cannot outrun. From the mist-draped streets of London to the sacred shrines of Najaf, from the restless energy of New York to the sunlit alleys of Madrid, she moves through the world searching — for love, for answers, and for the man a prophecy once promised her.

Along the way, she finds Mustafa, a divorced Iraqi father carrying his daughters' wounds like stones. Mundhir, a resistance fighter who knows how to disappear. And Abdulrahman — the man she loved longest and understood last, whose final accusation of heresy fractures something in her she didn't know could break.

But Two Years and Then Some is not simply a love story. It is a reckoning. As Aisha's private search for belonging mirrors the fractured politics of a Middle East torn between myth and modernity, she begins to ask the question that has haunted her for years: can we truly wake from our illusions before they consume us?

Confessional, spiritually fierce, and achingly human, this is a novel about the wounds of diaspora, the psychology of longing, and what remains of a woman when she finally stops waiting — and starts arriving.