Goodbye, My Love

Goodbye, My Love by Yumna Kassab is a sharp, intimate literary novel about what lingers after a marriage ends—and why leaving is rarely the clean break we imagine. Told with spare, precise beauty, it follows Amina as she steps out of a relationship that was meant to be a beginning, only to find its weight still shaping every part of her life.

Set within an Arab community, Kassab traces the arc from early attraction to the quiet accumulations that sour into rupture, without leaning on melodrama. Amina’s divorce is only the first departure; the harder task is learning how to live forward when memory keeps tugging her back, myth and faith threading through the everyday.

Perfect for readers drawn to Australian literary fiction, divorce stories, cultural identity, and emotionally intelligent novels that examine love, responsibility and power with clear-eyed compassion.

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