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The paperback release of two fine novels by Bay Area writers is the occasion for this joint reading, moderated by Sabina Khan-Ibarra. In Call Her Freedom, Tara Dorabji closely follows over several decades the lives of two women, a mother and her daughter, in a territory contested by two major nations, caught in the crosshairs and maintaining their independence at great cost in a patriarchal society. Although this is Dorabji's first novel, her documentary film work in Kashmir, "the most densely militarized place on earth," deeply informs her fiction and her insights into the characters and their context; and her narrative skill and grace are on full display in her fiction. Betty Shamieh's debut novel, Too Soon, comes in the midst the writer's successful career as a playwright with a dozen produced plays, seven of which have been mounted in New York. Her novel vividly questions the cultural norms and historical circumstances faced by three women--a theater director, her mother, and her grandmother--over lives in the diaspora that brings the grandmother from Ramallah to Detroit in the Nakba of 1948, her daughter to San Francisco in an arranged marriage and her granddaughter to New York and then Gaza in the current era.