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Evil eye : a novel
- Title
- Evil eye : a novel / Etaf Rum.
- Author
- Rum, Etaf
- Publication
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]
- ©2023
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 23-3215 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 340 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Raised in a conservative and emotionally volatile Palestinian family in Brooklyn, Yara thought she would finally feel free when she married a charming entrepreneur who took her to the suburbs. She's gotten to follow her dreams, completing an undergraduate degree in Art and landing a good job at the local college. As a traditional wife, she also raises their two school-aged daughters, takes care of the house, and has dinner ready when her husband gets home. With her family balanced with her professional ambitions, Yara knows that her life is infinitely more rewarding than her own mother's. So why doesn't it feel like enough? After her dream of chaperoning a student trip to Europe evaporates and she responds to a colleague's racist provocation, Yara is put on probation at work and must attend mandatory counseling to keep her position. Her mother blames a family curse for the trouble she's facing, and while Yara doesn't really believe in old superstitions, she still finds herself growing increasingly uneasy with her mother's warning and the possibility of falling victim to the same mistakes. Shaken to the core by these indictments of her life, Yara finds her carefully constructed world beginning to implode. To save herself, Yara must reckon with the reality that the difficulties of the childhood she thought she left behind have very real, and damaging, implications not just on her own future but that of her daughters"--
- Subject
- Palestinian Americans > Fiction
- Families > Fiction
- Racism > Fiction
- Palestinian American women > Fiction
- Mothers and daughters > Fiction
- Generational trauma > Fiction
- Racism in the workplace > United States > Fiction
- Businesspeople > Fiction
- Immigrant families > Fiction
- Psychic trauma > Fiction
- Businesspeople
- Families
- Generational trauma
- Immigrant families
- Mothers and daughters
- Psychic trauma
- Palestinian Americans
- Palestinian American women
- Racism
- Racism in the workplace
- Mother-daughter relationship > Fiction
- Blessing and cursing > Fiction
- Immigrants > Fiction
- Abnormal psychology > Fiction
- Family members
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction
- New York (State) > New York > Brooklyn
- United States
- North Carolina > Fiction
- New York (State) > Kings County
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Psychological fiction.
- Social problem fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Call Number
- JFE 23-3215
- ISBN
- 9780062987907
- 0062987909
- OCLC
- 1352478473
- Author
- Rum, Etaf, author.
- Title
- Evil eye : a novel / Etaf Rum.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-3215