Too Soon A Novel

Betty Shamieh

eBook - 2025

"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 t...heir 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 risqué cross-dressing... more