The Renovation by Kenan Orhan is a heartbreaking portrait of one family caught in the tides of history, grappling with grief, exile, politics and the painful absurdity of love. Dilara’s father has dementia and the disease steals a little more of him each day. Dilara has persuaded him to move in with her but when the renovation is complete she discovers that, instead of a new bathroom, the builders have installed a Turkish prison cell. At first she is outraged. Dilara’s family are exiles – they left Turkey many years ago and have never been back. But as the weeks pass, her indignation gives way to curiosity. Beyond the cell door, she glimpses Turkish guards going about their work. Through the cell walls, she hears Turkish prisoners murmuring, rustling, crying out in their sleep. Even as she struggles to care for her father, to keep the family finances afloat and stop the wheels coming off her marriage, Dilara is drawn back again and again to the mysterious prison cell. Link in bio to fi...