In an unnamed coastal city—along a seaside drive—a woman searches for her missing daughter. Watching her is a pregnant woman who will soon give birth to a stillborn child. She’s stuck in a hospital with hallucinations of the death of her best friend, who was last seen buried under bombed buildings. The Singularity is a sweeping look at the generational grief of migration, narrated in a poetic rhythm that moves like an elegy. Written by Balsam Karam—of Iranian and Kurdish roots—in Swedish, The Singularity is now available to a wider audience (via a migration of its own) through Saskia Vogel’s English translation.