Yasmin Zaher

Nov 13, 2024 | time.com | Meg Zukin |Yasmin Zaher

These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. By Meg ZukinNovember 13, 2024 8:06 AM ESTYasmin Zaher’s debut, The Coin, is a surreal trip of a novel about one woman’s pain and isolation, along with her compulsive cleaning obsession and Birkin bag-selling scheme. The protagonist is a wealthy Palestinian woman living in Brooklyn whose inheritance is all tied up.

Oct 14, 2024 | bidoun.org | Yasmin Zaher |Aria Aber

At first, it was contained, it had borders, like the square of the canvas or page. One night , I moved the tables and chairs to the bathroom, and I didn’t think much of it, I thought that at most I was birthing a new cleaning ritual. The week went by like this, and I still did not know why the living room was empty. I was acting on pure instinct. I went to Home Depot and spent a lot of money there. I didn’t know why or on what or how.

Aug 21, 2024 | therumpus.net | Yasmin Zaher

The Author: Yasmin ZaherThe Book: The Coin(Catapult, 2024)The Elevator Pitch: A Palestinian woman moves to New York City, living off her inheritance and teaching at a middle school. Her unorthodox teaching methods backfire. ***The Rumpus: Where did the idea of your book come from? Yasmin Zaher: I had just moved to New York City, and it completely freaked me out.

Aug 9, 2024 | frieze.com | Sammy Loren |Yasmin Zaher

Early in our conversation, the Palestinian writer Yasmin Zaher gets to the heart of her irreverent, darkly hilarious debut novel The Coin(2024) – published in the US last month by Catapult. ‘Pornography is no longer taboo,’ she tells me from her Paris office. ‘But speaking about real people’s sex lives still carries a level of discomfort.’ Though a novel about many topics – fashion, alienation, displacement and, of course, Palestine – The Coin circles back time and again to the subject of sex.

Jul 11, 2024 | nytimes.com | Yasmin Zaher

THE COIN, by Yasmin ZaherHalfway through Yasmin Zaher's debut novel, "The Coin," the unnamed narrator, a Palestinian schoolteacher in New York City, arrives at the Hermès flagship store on Paris's Rue Saint-Honoré to buy a Birkin. She already has one, a larger size in black, inherited from her mother, who died in a car crash in Palestine, along with her father.