Beautiful Kaak Asawer (Palestinian date ring cookies)

Happy to tell you that The Monsoon War, my novel about militant feminist resistance and sequel to Before She Sleeps, won the Getz Pharma English Fiction prize at the Karachi Literature Festival this past weekend. Looking forward to hearing what you think of it!

My Diane Keaton era is starting in 2025, I feel.

At the bookstore. Sales person sees me come in, hastily brings a few of my books down from a dusty top shelf and puts one half-heartedly on a display. The glamor of being a successful novelist.

Tired of 2024.

Need to get this guy a license plate that says A55H0L3

Almost 21. Taken at Wellesley College for my senior class photo, 1993.

Papa, if only you knew that teaching one of your stories to a bunch of 10th graders at 8 am is as hard if not harder than reeling in a 400 pound marlin, driving an ambulance in a battlefield, and running with the bulls all at the same time... #hemingway #teaching #English #highschool

Museum of the Future, Dubai. This city was the inspiration for Green City in my novel Before She Sleeps. It looks like 2070 here.

Also writers.

So according to the Internet (and ChatGPT) here are some books I have supposedly written, including one which has won me the International Booker Prize. No points for guessing where you go if you click on the links. #chatGPTsucks #AIsucks #craftsmannotartist