The BookFabulous Eight - Jan 2021

by Rana Asfour

Here are the eight titles that have caught the interests of the BookFabulous family over & over this month. We’re positive you’ll love them too.

Top shelf (L-R)
1. “A Bed for the King’s Daughter’ by Shahla Ujayli, translated by Sawad Hussein, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Univer
2. “We Free the Stars” by Hafsah Faizal, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
3. “Barra and Zaman: Reading Egyptian Modernity in Shadi Abdel Salam’s The Mummy” by Youssef Rakha (Palgrave Pivot)

Middle shelf (L-R)
1. “Bride of the Sea” by Eman Quotah, Tin House
2. “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain’ by George Saunders, Random House

Bottom shelf (L-R)
1. “Aftershocks” by Nadia Owusu,  Simon & Schuster
2. “Burnt Sugar” by Avni Doshi, Penguin
3. “The ardent Swarm” by Yamen Manai, Amazon Publishing