Yara Zgheib

Yara Zgheib is a reader, writer, traveler, lover of art and jazz. She was born in Beirut and has pieces of her heart in Paris, London, Boston, and one particularly beautiful, one-road Tuscan village.She is the author of The Girls at 17 Swann Street (St. Martin’s Press, 2019), which was a People Pick for Best New Books, a Barnes and Noble pick for Best Books of 2019, and a BookMovement Group read.

Her second novel, No Land to Light On (Atria Books, January 2022), a Simon and Schuster pick and Indie Book read, has been called a “masterful story of tragedy and redemption” written in “soul-searing prose,” and has been featured in The Washington Post, The L.A. Times, and Newsweek as one of the top books of 2022.

Her essays and stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, The Huffington Post, The Four Seasons Magazine, HOLIDAY Magazine, The European, and others. Also, every Thursday, she publishes an essay on The non-Utilitarian: thoughts on life, art, and things neither practical nor useful,

like love and fresh water, for example. To be notified, every Thursday morning, when a new essay is published, please subscribe to the newsletter.

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