{"product_id":"9781668046555","title":"Too Soon : A Novel by Betty Shamieh","description":"\"Fiercely funny, sexy, and culturally resonant.\" -People, Best Books of the Month  \"Shamieh balances her characters' painful family history and their boisterously funny voices.\" -The New Yorker  A \"wonderfully brash and sparkling\" (Oprah Daily, Best Books of the Year) novel that explores exile, love, and freedom across three generations of women-\"a Palestinian American Sex and the City\" (The Atlantic).   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 lives.    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 risqu? cross-dressing interpretation of a Shakespeare classic-that might garner international attention-in the West Bank. Her mother, Naya, and grandmother, Zoya, hatch a plot to match her with 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...    With biting hilarity, Too Soon introduces us to a trio of bold and unforgettable voices. This dramatic saga follows one family's epic journey fleeing war-torn Jaffa in 1948, chasing the American Dream in Detroit and San Francisco in the sixties and seventies, hustling in the New York theatre scene post-9\/11, and daring to stage a show in Palestine in 2012. Upon learning one of them is living on borrowed time, the three women fight to live, make art, and love on their own terms. A funny, sexy, and heart-wrenching literary debut, Too Soon illuminates our shared history and asks, how can we set ourselves free?\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369114186101,"sku":"9781668046555","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781668046555.jpg?v=1763552123","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781668046555","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}