Ru Freeman is a writer and activist whose work appears internationally. Her debut novel, A Disobedient Girl, is published in the US and Canada by Atria/Simon & Schuster, by Viking in the UK and in multiple translations including Hebrew and Italian. She is a contributing editorial board member of the Asian American Literary Review.
Lorraine Adams is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and critic whose work centers on the encounter between the American enterprise and those caught in violent conflict in the Islamic world. Her…