Sarah Cypher is the author of The Skin and its Girl, out now from Ballantine Books! The novel follows the blue-skinned, queer second-generation Palestinian-American protagonist Betty Rummani, as she navigates difficult questions in her own life by turning to her memories of her great-aunt Nuha for guidance. The fictional Rummani family are in exile from Palestine, where they had owned a soap factory for hundreds of years, over many generations– a soap factory that was destroyed on the day that Betty was born with blue skin, where the story begins.
Sarah Cypher, author of The Skin and its Girl
Sarah Cypher, author of The Skin and its Girl
Sarah Cypher, author of The Skin and its Girl
Sarah Cypher is the author of The Skin and its Girl, out now from Ballantine Books! The novel follows the blue-skinned, queer second-generation Palestinian-American protagonist Betty Rummani, as she navigates difficult questions in her own life by turning to her memories of her great-aunt Nuha for guidance. The fictional Rummani family are in exile from Palestine, where they had owned a soap factory for hundreds of years, over many generations– a soap factory that was destroyed on the day that Betty was born with blue skin, where the story begins.