**Intact Gift Giving Condition book**

Baghdad, 1946. In newly emancipated Iraq, a talented Jewish girl is caught at the crossroads between freedom and tradition to define what home and family truly mean. Esther, a romantic young woman born in Mandatory Iraq, never knew her birthmother who passed away when she was just seven years old. The eldest of three siblings, she spends her days raising her younger brothers, Zion and Salman, under the watchful eyes of their cold stepmother.