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Sara Hamdan

Biography

Sara Hamdan

Sara Hamdan, a Berkeley and Columbia graduate, is a former Merrill Lynch banker, New York Times journalist, and editor at Google. After winning a Netflix short story award, she received the First Chapter: Emirates Literature Foundation Seddiqi First Chapter Writers’ Fellowship for her debut novel, WHAT WILL PEOPLE THINK? Sara is Palestinian American, raised in Greece, and has called Dubai home for 20 years. When she’s not typing away at her laptop, she loves to spend time at the beach with her husband and two kids.

Sara Hamdan

Books by Sara Hamdan

by Sara Hamdan - Fiction, Humor

By day, Mia Almas works at a respectable job as a media fact checker, and, by night, she takes to the stages of New York City comedy clubs. She holds herself back in a lot of ways, especially in the romance department, but being on stage lights her up and makes being a wallflower the rest of the time more bearable. That is, until Phaedra, her stylish and bold new neighbor, inspires Mia to take a few risks. As Mia pursues a forbidden romance with her boss, her standup gets better and bolder, leading to a surprise spotlight that exposes her secret gig. Horrified and worried that her rebellious act could mean big consequences for her reserved Palestinian-American family, Mia frantically dives into damage control. But all of her efforts to pull back from the spotlight expose a family scandal from the 1940s that could change everything.