Evil eye: a novel
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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.
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Businesspeople -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Generational trauma -- Fiction.
Immigrant families -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Palestinian American women -- Fiction.
Palestinian Americans -- Fiction.
Psychic trauma -- Fiction.
Racism -- Fiction.
Racism in the workplace -- United States -- Fiction.
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Rum, E. (2023). Evil eye: a novel. First edition. New York, NY, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Rum, Etaf. 2023. Evil Eye: A Novel. New York, NY, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Rum, Etaf, Evil Eye: A Novel. New York, NY, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2023.
MLA Citation (style guide)Rum, Etaf. Evil Eye: A Novel. First edition. New York, NY, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2023.
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