If I Must Die Tomes & Tea but Max Griffin has stolen

but Max Griffin has stolen the Mother Stone

In the last novella

I loop my arms around his torso

Liyen ascends a precarious throne

Her domineering mother

If I Must Die Tomes & Tea but Max Griffin has stolenThe renowned poet and literature professor Refaat Alareer was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City alongside his brother, sister, and nephews in December 2023. He was just forty four years old, but had already established a worldwide reputation that was further enhanced when, in the wake of his death, the poem that gives this book its title became a global sensation. If I Must Die is included here, alongside Refaats other poetry. Refaat wrote