A young Palestinian woman teaching at a New York middle school becomes increasingly untethered by money, beauty, cleanliness, power and desire.

Wealthy but stateless, precise but unstable, she moves between classroom life, obsessive rituals, bad men, luxury objects and the strange spiritual theatre of ownership.

The Coin is a debut novel with a serrated little pulse: funny, filthy, elegant, politically uneasy and psychologically strange without flattening itself into issue-fiction. It sits somewhere between contemporary New York novel, dissociation spiral, class satire and body-horror of the self — a book about what happens when identity, money and control become indistinguishable from appetite.

2024 Footnote Press paperback, first printing. Near fine condition, with only very light shelf wear. Clean, bright copy.