Meet Etaf Rum, New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man, in conversation with Anna Katsavos as they discuss Rum's second novel, Evil Eye (2023). This contemporary fiction depicts the complicated family relationships and tensions in the life of a Palestinian-American woman. The protagonist Yara, a wife and mother of two girls, raised in Brooklyn within a tight Palestinian expatriate community, has honored some cultural traditions, including an arranged marriage, while resisting others, such as wearing a hijab. Feeling unfulfilled in what would appear to be a good life in North Carolina where she earned a master's degree and a job at a local college, she revisits her volatile childhood and conflicts involving her own angry and troubled mother who never considered leaving her abusive marriage.
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