Evil Eye

By Etaf Rum

Book Overview

An NPR Best Book of the Year - A Time Magazine Most Anticipated Book of the Year

"A moving meditation on motherhood, intergenerational trauma and how surface appearances often obscure a deeper truth. . . . A stunning second novel from a writer who set the bar very high with her first "--Tara Conklin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics and Community Board

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

Yara Murad has worked hard to outrun the demons of her tumultuous Brooklyn childhood. Now living far from home, Yara has achieved everything she aspired to: She is highly educated and teaches art to college student. She's also raising two daughters with her businessman husband, Fadi. Her marriage is nothing like her parents' high-conflict relationship, and she knows her life is worlds better and freer than her mother's.

So why doesn't it feel that way? Why does Yara experience flashes of anger out of nowhere or a sadness she can't name? When an incident at the college threatens her job, her mother suggests that a family curse could be to blame. While Yara doesn't believe in old superstitions, she's shaken as she finds her carefully constructed world beginning to implode. To save herself, Yara must finally confront the childhood she thought she'd left behind and forge her own path forward.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062987909
• ISBN13: 9780062987907
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Wow!

Yara? Me? Same. One of the ways I am continuing to challenge my internalized racism & yt supremacy is by reading books about BIPOC characters by BIPOC authors. This is so shameful to admit but I continue to be shocked by the fact that despite looking different from one another, the female experience can be so brutally and heartbreakingly universal. This is my second time reading an Etaf Rum book but I enjoy her narratives immensely. I can’t wait to read her other works!