Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis

Fundamentally by Nussaibah YounisFundamentally by Nussaibah Younis "By normal, you mean like you? A slag with a saviour complex?" Nadia is an academic who's been disowned by her puritanical mother and dumped by her lover, Rosy. She decides to make a getaway, accepting a UN job in Iraq. Tasked with rehabilitating ISIS women, Nadia becomes mired in the opaque world of international aid, surrounded by bumbling colleagues. Sara is a precocious and sweary East Londoner who joined ISIS at

Her grieving father gathered up the remaining family and walked north away from her childhood home

or most intriguingly

a young adolescent runs wild

gripping and deeply moving novel from a brilliant young writer

but she has ambitions of her own in this new citadel

guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters

and humanity’s last hope

the surrounding region and through road maps of Melbourne in addition to maps of the Great Ocean Road and East Gippsland

traditional owners

the other itinerants brand her an intruder

they tell the stories of their families

learns how to ""log in"" and heli-board