Mid Day Book Club -- April

About the Book: The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak is a novel about forbidden love, family secrets, and generational trauma set against the backdrop of the 1974 Cyprus conflict, told partly from the perspective of a fig tree that witnesses the story of a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot teenager, Kostas and Defne, and their daughter Ada in London decades later. The narrative weaves between the past and present, exploring themes of identity, migration, loss, and the enduring connection between people and their homeland, using the fig tree as a unique narrator to bridge human stories with the natural world.