Floodlines by Saleem Haddad is an ambitious and heartfelt novel following an Iraqi-British family of artists from 1950s Baghdad to the summer of 2014 in London, Dubai, and along the Tigris River.
In the summer of 2014, three estranged sisters, Ishtar, Zainab, and Mediha, are forced together when their late father’s artworks are rediscovered.…