Amal Awad Amal Awad i(A147437 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Palestinian
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Amal Awad is a Sydney-based writer and editor. She has a combined arts/law degree and practiced as a lawyer before taking up journalism and editing. Author of the non-fiction Beyond Veiled Clichés: The Real Lives of Arab Women, she has also published novels, including Courting Samira and This Is How You Get Better. Her work has also appeared in Coming of Age: Growing up Muslim in Australia.

In 2018, Awad appeared at the Adelaide Festival, discussing the worlds of contemporary Arab women with Manal al-Sharif (jailed in 2011 for driving a car in Saudi Arabia).

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y separately published work icon Bitter and Sweet Neutral Bay : Pantera Press , 2023 26985912 2023 single work novel

'Funny, touching uplit set in the Sydney restaurant scene. Bitter & Sweet will be Amal Awad's breakout book

'The lake in the middle of her father's kitchen is only the first in a series of disasters in Zeina's life. Nassar's recent health crisis has seen his well-established community restaurant, Casablanca, losing ground and customers to trendier competition.

'Casablanca's deterioration is not the only chaos in Zeina's world but, unlike her husband who won't speak to her, her best friend who is sliding towards self-destruction, and her cousin who is stealing Zeina's life story for content, the restaurant is something she can fix. And Zeina, lonely and adrift, needs something she can fix.

'Taking leave from her prestigious chef position, Zeina throws herself into caring for her ailing father, immersing herself in the familiar foods and flavours of her childhood, trying to save both him and his restaurant. But working in the kitchen and her childhood home brings memories, secrets, and unexpected ambitions simmering to the surface. When it comes time to make hard decisions, Zeina will have to accept that growing up is an ongoing process one that never gets any easier.' (Publication summary)

2024 longlisted APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover designed by Hazel Lam.
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