Daughter, Son, Assassin

A Novel

Steven Salaita author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Common Notions

Published:27th Jun '24

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Daughter, Son, Assassin cover

Key publicity targets 

  • Review in The Nation 
  • Review in Los Angeles Review of Books 
  • Interview in Dissent Magazine 
  • Interview in The Electronic Intifada 
  • Extract in The New Inquiry 
  • Review in The Guardian 
  • Interview in Lux Magazine 
  • Review/feature in NovaraMedia 
  • Feature/interview in Teen Vogue 
  • Review in BookForum 
  • Interview in LitHub 
  • Feature on BookRiot 

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A story of family bonds amid political betrayal that explores the drastic steps that a young girl will take in order to find a sense of belonging.

Fred is lost, confused, almost certainly about to die. As he traces his steps back from the desert where he has been dropped by soldiers of a repressive Gulf Kingdom regime, his nine-year-old daughter, Nancy, is doing the same from six thousand miles away in a quiet neighborhood in the suburbs of Washington, DC. 

With his disappearance, she and her mother are forced to leave their comfortable house in DC for a new life in Virginia.  Abandoned by their friends and desperate for answers, Nancy and her mother must acclimate to the strange world of suburban anonymity. As Nancy grows into adulthood, she pieces together what happened to her father and devises a bold plan to avenge his disappearance.  

Unraveling an international web of deceit in order to find her father will take time and patience; and becoming a cold-blooded assassin takes commitment to a life at odds with everything she knows. 


Daughter, Son, Assassin is a brilliant debut novel from one of Palestine’s bravest and most trusted intellectuals.” —Susan Abulhawa, author of Against the Loveless World

“At times both sensitive and incendiary, Daughter, Son, Assassin is a meditation on parenting, friendship, the push and pull of diaspora over generations and the politics of conciliation to empire—in the form of a thriller. Steven Salaita’s debut novel is a fabulous and necessary read.” —Kareem Rabie, author of Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago

ISBN: 9781945335082

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

256 pages