Too Soon A Novel

Betty Shamieh

eBook - 2025

"A Palestinian American Sex and the City." —The Atlantic "Wonderfully brash and sparkling...This book fills in gaps in our understanding." —Oprah Daily "Shamieh balances her characters' painful family history and their boisterously funny voices." —New Yorker A funny, sexy, and heart-wrenching literary debut that explores exile, ambition, and hope across three generations of Palestinian American women.Arabella gets an unexpected chance at love when she's thrust into a conflict and history she's tried to avoid all her life. Zoya is playing matchmaker for her last unmarried granddaughter and stirring up buried memories. Naya is keeping a secret from her children that will change all their li...ves. Thirty-five-year-old Arabella, a New York theatre director whose dating and career prospects are drying up, is offered an opportunity to direct a risqué cross-dressing... more