Obsessive cleaning and cynicism about designer brands are elements of this debut about a Palestinian woman
The Coin by Yasmin Zaher: Mad, brilliant novel about a Palestinian woman in New YorkZaher is a Palestinian writer and journalist with a degree in biomedical engineering from Yale University and an MFA from The New School, where she was advised by Katie Kitamura. She lives in Paris. Throughout her debut, the prose is sensual, original and charged with insight: “Art is about taste, and taste is formed by experience,” the narrator tells us at one point.
Swiss luxury brand Vetements sells “sweatshop hoodies for thousands of dollars, because the young and ultrarich wanted to look like the working class. The slogan was Ugly Is Beautiful.” At the midpoint of the book, in a comic adventure subplot, the narrator becomes involved with a homeless man and his scheme to resell the famous Birkin handbags made by Hermes: “Every year, regardless of poverty, war, or famine, the price of the Birkin increases.
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