L. Shapley Bassen

Gebundenes Buch

How She Came to Know

Beschreibung

"How She Came to Know" is a bold, unforgettable adult contemporary dramedy that explores identity, faith, love, and the tangled path to self-definition. With sharp wit and emotional depth, it follows a brilliant young scientist as she navigates the pressures of heritage, ambition, and desire in post-millennial America. At the center is Marwa Al-Hal, the American-born daughter of Egyptian immigrants, whose coming-of-age begins in Lower Manhattan in the fall of 2000. As she moves through high school, college, and into early adulthood, Marwa wrestles with inherited expectations, new freedoms, and the deep bonds of family and friendship. Along the way, she forms a complex and powerful relationship that challenges everything she thought she knew about love and herself. Spanning fifteen transformative years and punctuated by humor, cultural tension, and tender insight, "How She Came to Know" offers a vivid portrait of a woman forging her identity in a world that keeps trying to define her.

Autor

L. Shapley Bassen is a prize-winning author, poet, dramatist, and current fiction editor at Craft Literary. Her writing career began in 1984 with The Kenyon Review and spans decades of publication across acclaimed journals and presses. Her second novel, Blue Monkeys, will be published in print by Shy City House (Chicago) in September 2025. The haunting backstory of a central character in Blue Monkeys led to the creation of her newest work, How She Came to Know.She is the author of several books, including Summer of the Long Knives (Typhoon Media-Signal 8 Press, 2014), Lives of Crime & Other Stories (Texture Press, 2014), Showfolk & Stories (Inkception Books, 2017), and the poetry collection What Suits a Nudist? (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, 2019). Her play The Month Before the Moon was published by Samuel French (now Concord Theatricals) in 1996.In 2016, Bassen won First Place in The Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest for "Portrait of a Giant Squid." She has been widely published in literary venues such as The Kenyon Review, Per Contra, Lunch Ticket, and The Writing Disorder.A native New Yorker now living in Rhode Island, Bassen credits her grandmother-a Wall Street telegrapher from over a century ago-for teaching her to read and tapping secret messages to her in Morse code, a formative experience that ignited her lifelong love of language.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Page Turner Books, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 625g
• ISBN-13: 9781965788639
• ISBN-10: 1965788637
• Artikelnr.: 75572130