Peace in Abandonment

Peace in Abandonment follows Maasha, a young Iranian woman who becomes an undocumented immigrant in the UK after fleeing the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s. But Maasha doesn’t escape alone. With her, a handful of specially abled strangers and kids as fellow refugees, she barely knows, yet chooses to protect with unwavering resolve.

Set against a backdrop of war, exile, and emotional ruin, the novel explores the brutal weight of displacement, discrimination, mental health, and the quiet desperation of survival. As Maasha struggles to protect those in her care, she is forced into a devastating choice laced with pain, courage, and the blurred lines between dignity and survival.

Peace in Abandonment doesn’t offer easy answers, only the quiet, aching question of what it means to stay human when everything else is lost, and what Maasha will get in return?

A story of fractured identities and impossible decisions, Peace in Abandonment asks: How far can one go to remain human when the world refuses to see you as one?