{"product_id":"9781668046555","title":"Too Soon : A Novel","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Betty Shamieh\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 12 February 2026 by SIMON \u0026amp; SCHUSTER (Avid Reader Press) in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 352 pages\u003cbr\u003e213 x 140 | 270g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArabella gets an unexpected chance at love when she’s thrust into a conflict and history she’s tried to avoid all her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Zoya is playing matchmaker for her last unmarried granddaughter and stirring up buried memories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Naya is keeping a secret from her children that will change all their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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 interpretation of a Shakespeare classic—that might garner international attention—in the West Bank. Her mother, Naya, and grandmother, Zoya, hatch a plot to match her with Aziz, a Palestinian American doctor volunteering in Gaza. Arabella agrees to meet Aziz, since her growing feelings for Yoav, a celebrated Israeli American theatre designer, seem destined for disaster...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e With biting hilarity, Too Soon introduces us to a trio of bold and unforgettable voices. This dramatic saga follows one family’s epic journey fleeing war-torn Jaffa in 1948, chasing the American Dream in Detroit and San Francisco in the sixties and seventies, hustling in the New York theatre scene post-9\/11, and daring to stage a show in Palestine in 2012. Upon learning one of them is living on borrowed time, the three women fight to live, make art, and love on their own terms. A funny, sexy, and heart-wrenching literary debut, Too Soon illuminates our shared history and asks, how can we set ourselves free?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56748432359799,"sku":"9781668046555","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781668046555.jpg?v=1771327889","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.co.uk\/products\/9781668046555","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}