Too soon
Shamieh, Betty2025
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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 risque cross-dressing interpretation of a Shakespeare classic (that might garner international attention) in the West Bank. Her grandmother, Zoya, plots to make a match between her and Aziz, a Palestinian American doctor volunteering in Gaza. Arabella agrees to meet Aziz since her growing feelings for Yoav, a celebrated Israeli American theatre designer, seem destined for disaster. Arabella and Aziz's instant connection reminds Zoya of the passion she once felt for Aziz's grandfather, a man she desired desperately, even after her father arranged another husband for her. In turn, Zoya would later marry off her youngest daughter, Naya, who aspired to date the Jackson 5 and wasn't ready to be a wife or mother to Arabella at sixteen. Now that Naya's children are grown and she's arrived at an abrupt midlife crossroads, it's time to settle old scores...
Main title:
Too soon / Betty Shamieh.
Author:
Shamieh, Betty, author
Work:
Imprint:
New York : Avid Reader Press, 2025.©2025.
Collation:
323 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781668094495 (paperback)9781668046562 (ebook)
Dewey class:
813.6F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2724721