Trees are not blind

From one of Haifa's villages to one of Lebanon's camps and from him to the United States of America, a biography of a woman who would be presumed dead, and even buried, but we discover that this is not entirely accurate.
In the novel Trees Are Not Blind, a mother of five sons with different stamps is confronted with a particular kind of China as long as they wait to die.
Everyone talks about a woman called Habbahan", whose husband claims she returned home after being buried six hours to go about her normal life. Is death public and life going on?