I asked some of the best short story writers in America to review just one story from Falsipedies and Fibsiennes. Below is Story Prize Finalist, Ethel Rohan, on A Beautiful Woman, about a maid in Abu Dhabi. A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Why does what we look like matter so much? Why do we seem more motivated to fix others versus ourselves? Why do we often have so little say over our own lives? These are just some of the quandaries explored in Ali Eteraz’s story, “A Beautiful Woman.” Set in Abu Dhabi and crackling with strangeness, “A Beautiful Woman” drops us into a chaotic, dangerous, and unjust microcosm with Samia at its center, a heretofore marginalized maid whose preferred mode of transportation is a miniature, motorized trike and whom hecklers have dubbed the Bandit Queen. With true empathy, I will remember Samia less as the Bandit Queen, however much I like that image and title, and more as the overlooked woman who, “in the recessed parts of her, where vestiges of femininity were still strong, she felt anguish.” — Ethel Rohan, author of OUT OF DUBLIN (Shebooks) & GOODNIGHT NOBODY (Queen’s Ferry Press), a Story Prize Notable Book. amazon/Falsipedies-Fibsiennes-Essential-Prose-Series/dp/1550718827
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 16:57:48 +0000
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