New Short Fiction: Badar Salem’s ‘The Scent That Followed’
Everything was fine — until she read that story.
Badar Salem
On Hiva Nebi’s ‘One-size-fits-all Blue Dress’
“In her debut novel One-size-fits-all Blue Dress, Syrian-Kurdish writer Hiva Nebi offers us a rare gem: a book that doesn’t simply tell a story, but draws the readers into a raw, intimate exploration of the self. While the novel’s focus is postpartum depression, it also captures the experiences of being a woman, of giving birth, of living in a war zone, and of being married yet unbearably alone.”
‘Subject: Mirror, Mirror’: An Excerpt
This excerpt from Badar Salem’s “Lonely as a Crowded Room” was translated by the author.
‘Lonely as a Crowded Room’
‘Lonely as a Crowded Room’: Wit, Love, Death and Everything in Between By Alia H. Salim Some novels grip you from the first page, not because they fit into […]