Gulf / Mo Ogrodnik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ogrodnik, Mo, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Persian Gulf States--Social conditions--Fiction.

Women.

Resilience (Personality trait)--Fiction.

Resilience (Personality trait).

Survival--Fiction.

Survival.

Life change events--Fiction.

Life change events.

Women--Fiction.

Persian Gulf States--Fiction.

Persian Gulf States.

Genre:

Psychological fiction.

Physical Description:

422 pages : map ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Summit Books hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Summit Books, 2025.

Summary:

"Dounia, a young Saudi mother, finds herself alienated in a desolate, post-weather, air-conditioned modernist box and decides to rebel against all forms of domesticity. Flora, a Filipina domestic worker haunted by the flood that claimed her infant's life, navigates the perils of her boss's insurrection. Zeinah, a Syrian woman, seeks love within the confines of her arranged marriage to a jihadist and finds herself joining the female morality police. Justine, a white American curator, reckons with her own violence and ethical limitations when her life intersects with Eskedare, a spirited and defiant Ethiopian teenager whose dreams have dead-ended in the Gulf. Bold moves unlock vital consequences, each woman's journey conƯfronting us with our own capacity for cruelty, rebellion, resilience--and hope. Written with unsettling intimacy and determined empathy, Gulf exposes the stark realities of what happens when a woman's agency is stripped away and asks how far we will go in order to survive." -- Amazon.com

Notes:

"A novel"--Jacket.

ISBN:

9781668072141

1668072149

OCLC:

1460929277

Publisher Number:

90102046160