The novel The Sand Child, tells the story of a father, hopeless about having a son after having to nurture for seven daughters generates the lie that his eighth daughter will be born a son. The intensiveness of Zahras father's desire and deception is to hide that his eighth child truelly is, in fact, a daughter. He raises his daughter as his son, which works out perfectly for him where no one questions his doing. Throughout Zahras life we see the twists and turns of her confused childhood of her quest of identity, grow to adulthood and even eventually marry; what we also see is the traumatic impact this lie has on her throughout her entire life. The story of the main character, is told from the perspective of a number of different people,
