Saylor, E: Bridge Too Soon 'Afifa Karam and the Arabic Novel in the United States

"In some ways the child of her time, in other ways far ahead of her time, Karam is a complex writer and intellectual who demands the meticulous and long overdue attention that Elizabeth Saylor affords her."-Waïl S. Hassan, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions

"This important book makes a needed contribution to its field. It adds substantially to the corpus of scholarship in SWANA studies and provokes a new way of thinking about the place of women writers in the literatures of the modern Mahjar."-Stacy D. Fahrenthold, author of Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class

"In her careful analysis of Lebanese-American Afifa Karam's intercultural and interfaith novels, Saylor has realized the ambition of all feminist historians-retrieve, amplify, and celebrate women writers whom history has ignored."-Miriam Cooke, author of Dancing in Damascus: Creativity, Resilience, and the Syrian Revolution