Etaf Rum | Evil Eye (IN STORE)

ABOUT THE EVENT

Tickets include a signed copy of EVIL EYE, guaranteed entry to the event, and a seat in the reserved section. Etaf will be conversation with Raleigh author Therese Anne Fowler. Etaf & Therese will sign and personalize books after the program. More information about our events can be found here. 

ABOUT THE BOOK

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking exploration of the expectations of Palestinian-American women, the meaning of a fulfilling life, and the ways our unresolved pasts affect our presents.

“After Yara is placed on probation at work for fighting with a racist coworker, her Palestinian mother claims the provocation and all that’s come after were the result of a family curse. While Yara doesn’t believe in old superstitions, she finds herself unpacking her strict, often volatile childhood growing up in Brooklyn, looking for clues as to why she feels so unfulfilled in a life her mother could only dream of. Etaf Rum’s follow-up to her debut, A Woman Is No Man, is a complicated mother-daughter drama that looks at the lasting effects of intergenerational trauma and what it takes to break the cycle of abuse” (Time magazine).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ETAF RUM was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, by Palestinian immigrants. She lives in North Carolina with her two children. Rum runs the Instagram account @booksandbeans and is the author of the novel A Woman Is No Man.

THERESE ANNE FOWLER is the New York Times bestselling author of A Good Neighborhood, A Well-Behaved Woman, and Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald. Raised in the Midwest, she migrated to North Carolina in 1995. She holds a B.A. in sociology/cultural anthropology and an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University.

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