The maps of confusion – Buthaina Al Essa | Novel

The maps of confusion are the story of a seven-year-old boy who was lost by his family in Mecca during the Hajj season, and the journey to find him. The search for the child quickly turns into another journey, and another search, deeper... for the meaning of existence, the concept of God, and our relationships with each other. What will happen to the family that set out to the holy land for Hajj, then lost everything? Painful truths, on the human, political, and social levels, are revealed to the characters amid their search for the missing boy. Truths extend geographically, from Kuwait, to the west and south of the Kingdom, ending in Sinai, Egypt. What is the true value of a human in this world? Is the journey of searching from strait to strait a journey from confusion to confusion? And in the end, the question remains, is there an arrival? Or is arrival just a new confusion?