A review by blythehill
Evil Eye by Etaf Rum

3.0

It must be hard to follow such a killer novel as her debut, A Woman is No Man. This one attempted to offer similar drama of the cultural limitations placed on Palestinian American women (and children of immigrants), but it fell a bit flat. I wanted to love it, but It was repetitive and predictable. Also—and this might not be fair since I’m married to a painter myself—but the bits about art and painting (and eventually, earning income from selling art) felt overly simplistic and unrealistic— even idealistic. I don’t know if others would have a hard time getting past that, but I did.