ETAF RUM, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her award-winning debut, A Woman Is No Man: A Novel, te yon New York Times bestseller. She has a Master of Arts in American and British literature as well as undergraduate degrees in philosophy and English composition, and has taught undergraduate courses in North Carolina, where she lives with her two children and where she runs the Instagram account @booksandbeans. Evil Eye: A Novel (Harper), is her latest book.