Mother fault lines with Betty Shamieh, Debra Oswald and Naima Brown

Palestinian American playwright Betty Shamieh turns to fiction in Too Soon, (simonandschuster.com.au/books/Too-Soon/Betty-S…) a nuanced and lusty story of three generations of Palestinian women and the times that shape them. Australian author and TV screen writer Debra Oswald follows the eventful life of a gritty, strong woman in One Years of Betty (allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Debra-Oswald-One…). And in her biting satire Mother Tongue (panmacmillan.com.au/9781761685019), Naima Brown asks, if you could change your life, could you live with what you left behind?