Children of the Ghetto Part Two Starfish

Excerpt from the novel:
Stella Mars, or Starfish, is God’s balcony overlooking the dove swimming in the water, which we call Haifa.
On this balcony, where the hill of Prophet Elias takes us into the marvel, the hero of this story, Adam Dannoun, discovered his many faces, reconciled with his names, and wove his story. Here, he tasted his first kiss, and here, he learned the joys and pains of love. Here, he swore loyalty to the girl he loved, and here, he learned the alphabet of betrayal to erase the wounds of his heart with new wounds.
When the memory of God’s balcony swarms him as he tries to paint his image in the ink of words, he sees Haifa falling into the sea from the height of Mount Carmel, spreading her wings as if the water had become her spacious space. She dives into the water and floats, becoming a refuge for a young man whose only refuge is the feeling that what he lives is nothing but the shadows of a human life, a shadow of an unauthored story. Now, a deep longing takes him to Stella Mars, where he used to sit alone, feeling absent and invisible. He longs for the time of absence, so he resorts to the third-person pronoun to write his absence.
Here, on Mount Carmel, where history has tampered with the histories of place, the second Adam was born on a flat balcony in Carmel. He filled his solitude and alienation with the sea. He washed his eyes with the sunset, immersed in the silence of the sea air that spread a salty taste over his face.