Hardboiled & Hard Luck Condition:Very Good Kamal is forced to question

Kamal is forced to question his own loyalty when his own family attracts unwelcome attention from the security services

Leesa Cross-Smith’s mesmerizing first novel surrounding the death of a police officer is a requiem for marriage

Annotations in pen and slight foxing on certain pages

an ancient invitation

Hardboiled & Hard Luck Condition:Very Good Kamal is forced to questionA collection of two novellas, Hardboiled & Hard Luck concerns two young women making sense of the past. In "Hardboiled," the narrator is hiking in the mountains, reminiscing about an old loverthe only lesbian relationship the narrator ever hadwho is now dead. In a dream, she is visited by her ex lover, who berates her for forgetting the anniversary of her death. Later that night, a woman knocks on her hotel room door, saying that she was locked out of