Gail Chehab

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Gail Chehab

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Briarcliff, New York, The United States
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Chehab's first novel, The Echo of Sand, was published in November 2009 by Mid-List Press after she won the First Series Award. Her writing has been recognized by Joyce Carol Oates as Honorable Mention for the Zeotrope: All-Story Fiction Contest and chosen as runner-up for the San Diego Book Award. Chehab's second novel, The Tunnel, was published in July 2015 by MediaAria CDM. The Tunnel was a top finalist for The Arthur Edelstein Prize, a semifinalist for William Faulkner-William Wisdom Competition, Salem College's International Literary Prize, and for the Ruth Hindman Foundation and University of Alabama Short Story Contest. The novel also received a fellowship from the Summer Literary Seminars in Lithuania and Kenya, and was awarded secon ...more

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“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

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message 3: by Maria

Maria Thank you for the friend request, Gail! Lovely to meet you. Wishing you every success with your books :)


message 2: by Kris

Kris Gail, thank you so much for your friend request. I am delighted to accept it. I am very interested in Middle Eastern and North African literature, culture, and history, and look forward to learning a lot from you.


message 1: by Mona

Mona Garg Hello Gail! Thanks for the friend invite :) I enjoy world fiction, including Middle Eastern. I am especially drawn to South Asian fiction as that is my ethnic origin.


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