Labyrinth Maps, Paperback Book, By: Buthaina Al Eisa

What is the true value of a person in this world? The search journey from strait to strait, is it a journey from labyrinth to labyrinth? In the end, the question remains, is there access? Or is the arrival just a new wandering? In Labyrinth Maps, Buthaina Al-Issa allows its reader to live a different experience, neither life nor death. You take his hand to walk over the line between survival and falling. Through its “maps, ” it takes us to a third stage in which constants are shaken and visions change. Mashari's parents share the same misfortune while each deals with it in his own way. Mother, enters into a state of mysticism. She submits her affair to heaven, so that she may return her son to her. She moves on in her search for her missing son with a hope that she nurtures with faith and prayer. As for his father, he declares that he is tired of everything, and loses his confidence in everything. He goes on searching for his son, motivated by the instinct of fatherhood, without enjoying the certainty of believers. This is how the writer chooses to monitor two opposing human attitudes towards one calamity, not for judgment or condemnation, but in keeping with the human reality that tends in its fateful times towards the two extremes. "Some of us are helped by God. Others have to help ourselves."