<b>¿Poignant and compelling¿ will resonate with anyone who cares about justice and the abuse of power¿ - Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 News International Editor and author of Sandstorm</b><b>''Essential and urgent'' - Kim Ghattas, journalist and author of Black Wave</b><b>Lebanon and the wider Middle East is in crisis. For this extraordinary book, j</b><b>ournalist Dalal Mawad conducted a series of searing interviews with women in Lebanon - weaving an extraordinary story of survival, corruption and impunity</b>.On August 4 2020, a huge explosion in the heart of Beirut killed hundreds of people ¿ it was the apocalypse of a sequence of events that have led to Lebanon¿s unprecedented collapse. Award-winning journalist Dalal Mawad was in Lebanon when the blast happened, and was one of the first journalists to report on the mysterious and devastating explosion.During her reporting, she discovered something else ¿ that it is the women who stay behind, and it is through their stories that the his