Talisman of Dawn

In the dryland of adulthood, Sherazade likes to spend her days cultivating small stories she keeps only to herself and her younger sister, Duna. Tales about everything and anything -- lullabies for the heart. When Duna decides that she wants to go to Persepolis to chase her ambitious dreams of becoming a painter, the weight of being a responsible adult fall onto Sherazade's shoulders. Forced to marry Sultan Shariar, she decides to use her storytelling skills to avoid sleeping with a man she doesn't even know. But what Sher doesn't imagine, is that Shariar is just as helpless as her, following advice that doesn't make sense to him, trying to paint himself with the colors of society's expectations. Each night, they'll recognize the other behind layers of self-sacrifice and fears of ostracism, finding their true selves that they so eagerly tried to hide. A story about a man who didn't understand himself, and a woman who could translate the world into stories...