WHY AN AUTHOR WRITES TO A GUY HOLDING A FISH is Laila Halaby’s second collection of poetry. A story in verse, it is an honest, sensual, often funny series of narrative poems that chronicle the author’s walk out on her two-decade long relationship with her Palestinian husband. Halaby suddenly finds herself in the world of American dating where she searches for idealized love and genuine connection. Always an “other” and having never dated a white man or an American before, WHY AN AUTHOR WRITES TO A GUY HOLDING A FISH is about misadventures abound including heartbreak amid misread cues and lost nuances. Halaby reassesses her role as a woman, a mother raising men, and a writer, and learns how to dispense with labels and imagined expectations. In the process, she becomes reacquainted with her womanhood and power. In WHY AN AUTHOR WRITES TO A GUY HOLDING A FISH, Halaby successfully connects readers, both male and female, with a collection of poetry that is something special.
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