Driving by Starlight
Language: English
Published by Square Fish (edition Reprint), 2019
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- Title
- Driving by Starlight
- Author
- Deracine, Anat
- Publisher
- Square Fish (edition Reprint)
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 125030895X
- ISBN 13
- 9781250308955
- Edition
- Reprint.
A 2019 CCBC best-of-the-year recommendation by the University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Leena's commanding voice conveys her desperation, courage, and intellect in a riveting, ultimately exhilarating page-turner." —Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
"The fast-paced narrative and unexpected twists make for an engaging yet educational novel with a powerful message about the complexities of being a woman in a man's world." —Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW
In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, "Colored clothes could get you sent to the headmistress's office. Boys got you beheaded." Leena is 16 and her father is in jail. Without a male guardian, she can't go to college, can't marry, can't get a job. As if this isn't bad enough, her best friend seems intent on drawing the attention of the watchful religious police, wearing contraband lingerie and flirting with boys. Leena is going out of her mind, and her only escape is to dress as a boy and drag-race cars at night. Self-destructive, yes. But what other choice is there?
"I know it's dangerous," Mishail said. Everything we want is forbidden or dangerous. I just don't care."
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About the Author
Her short story, "The Divine Comedy of the Tech Sisterhood" highlights inequalities in the tech industry and was featured on the front page of Medium. She has also written several articles on writing craft, technology, and decolonization, for Publishers' Weekly, Writer's Digest, Mslexia, The Writing Cooperative, and more.
She has been featured in interviews and podcasts on writing craft, gender and feminism, as well as on diversity issues in the tech industry, where she currently works as an executive.
Some of her publications:
- Driving by Starlight (Macmillan, 2018)
- The Divine Comedy of the Tech Sisterhood (Code like a Girl)
- Why do you believe you're a woman? (An Injustice!)
- Authors can be agents of hope (Publishers Weekly)
- The agony and the ecstasy of switching genres (Pipeline Artists)
- Give a woman a mask and she'll take you somewhere new (Mslexia)
- Publishing is a wedding, writing a marriage (The Writing Cooperative)
- How to be edited without losing your voice (Writers' Digest)
- Writing Female Friendship (Kobo)
- 5 A's of Decolonized Editing (Book Trust)
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