Gulf — Fiction as Testimony to Middle East Injustice

Gulf — Fiction as Testimony to Middle East Injustice

In "Gulf," Mo Ogrodnik achieves what only a debut novelist of fierce moral clarity and cinematic instinct could attempt: She plunges headlong into the fissures of contemporary womanhood stretched across the blazing, glittering mirage of the Arabian Peninsula.But Ogrodnik is not interested in spectacle. She is interested in the daily, the domestic and the detritus of women's lives caught in systems designed to erase them. She renders the macro th…