The Last Crossing MPT present and future are set

present and future are set to collide

including the roles of violence

In the section giving its title to the book

Marble is a galvanizing novel about the materials life is made of

All this and more is covered in this second volume of When Reading Really Rocked

The Last Crossing MPT present and future are setWhen the Egyptian architect Mukhtar arrives in Oman to oversee a building project, he finds its a bait and switch. Instead of drawing up building plans, he is trapped into doing back breaking manual labour. As Mukhtar is forced from one demeaning job to the next, he pines for Houria, the love he left behind in the hopes of making enough money to support her. As he navigates the underbelly of the Omani economy, he and Houria exchange increasingly