FROM THE AWARD-WINNING NOVELIST AND PEDIATRICIAN, WINNER OF THE EGYPTIAN STATE ENCOURAGEMENT PRIZE. Four women—Naomi, Nouga, Nesma, and Nadine—bridge the painful geographical distances between Alexandria, Manhattan, Paris, and London through a shared virtual sanctuary: a WhatsApp group called “4N”. Under the banner of “globalizing together”, they use their screens to fight off isolation, sharing secrets and the heavy weight of histories they can neither heal nor escape. When Naomi mysteriously vanishes after an accident in Cairo, her son Naji begins to dig into her computer. There, he uncovers the files of the “4N” group and her private journals written in “flying ink”. Azza Rashad utilizes a brilliant techno-narrative structure to examine the quiet crises of modern Arab women. From post-9/11 cultural displacement in New York to the silent trap of aging and loneliness in Egypt, Azza Rashad lays bare the modern individual’s struggles in a globalized, yet deeply divided world.