Seeking a publisher
I am actively seeking English-language publishers for the extraordinary books listed below.
And the Cumin Too
by Zineb Mekouar
This masterfully interwoven postcolonial coming-of-age story follows two unforgettable Moroccan women born in the mid-1980s—wealthy Kenza and her maid’s daughter Fatiha—as they grow up, explore their sexuality, and struggle to find their way in very different worlds. Contact me for a pitch and sample.
Black Atlantic Blues
by Katia Dansoko Touré
In La Solitude des notes bleues debut novelist Katia Dansoko Touré takes the reader on a dazzlingly poetic journey through the first thirty years of the narrator’s life, where family secrets and generational violence are no match for the heroine’s indomitable resilience. Music, and especially jazz, helps her to stay afloat as she travels across the oceans and territories of the Black Atlantic, exploring the personal toll of its barbaric past as well as the boon of its rich cultural legacy. Inspired by the rhythms and strategies of jazz and improvisation, Dansoko Touré’s prose is at once destabilizing, compelling, and haunting.
Full pitch and sample available.
An Orchard in Damascus
by Camille Neveux
A moving, multi-generational family drama inspired by the author's husband's life, set against the backdrop of the Arab Spring and Syrian Revolution for fans of Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns and Victoria Hislop’s The Island.
I have secured $7,000 in grant funding for this title (only US publishers qualify). Full pitch and sample available.
Massa and Honey
by Roukiata Ouedraogo
From her comfortable perch on her mother's back, Yasmina narrates the story of her mother's fight to free her wrongfully accused husband from prison and keep poverty at bay for her seven children in Burkina Faso. A heart-rending ode to her mother's grit full of wry humor and insightful social criticism.
Pitch and English sample available.
