Yasmin Zaher. Footnote

Nov 22, 2024 | artreview.com | Nirmala Devi |Yasmin Zaher. Footnote

The author’s striking debut novel defies our expectations of what it means to be Palestinian‘Women in my family placed a lot of importance on being clean, perhaps because there was little else they could control in their lives.’ So reasons the narrator of Yasmin Zaher’s striking debut novel, an orphaned Palestinian living in New York and teaching in a school for deprived boys. Boys she wants to ‘fix’. She herself is not deprived; she’s wealthy.