In Jo Hamya’s second novel, “The Hypocrite,” a 20-something playwright puts her absent, aging writer dad on blast. By Joumana Khatib Joumana Khatib is an editor at the Book Review. When you purchase ...

A man sits in a theater and watches his life acted out onstage. Though he is a famous writer, it is not his play; though it is his life, he cannot control the outcome. He writhes in his seat, wants to ...

A playwright turns the tables on her author father by making him the subject of her new play — a fact he doesn't discover until the curtains rise — in Jo Hamya's new novel, "The Hypocrite." When it ...

Jo Hamya’s impressive novel “The Hypocrite” opens with an ambush. A famous and now elderly British novelist is attending the matinee performance of a play written by his daughter Sophia. In his heyday ...

A young female playwright publicly lampoons her novelist father in this astute tale of family differences Among an author’s most dreaded readers, their parents rank perhaps most highly. Megan Nolan ...

The novelist and critic on finding inspiration in her Twitter timeline, why she found the middle-aged man in her new book easier to write than his daughter, and how she learned her craft through ...

Hamya’s cerebral debut explores a young British woman’s identity formation while her country is besieged by inequality, disconnection, and political instability. In the fall of 2018, the unnamed ...

The unnamed narrator of Jo Hamya's debut novel "Three Rooms" tells herself, you are brown and bourgeois, and the internet does not believe you exist. She wants her own place but can't afford it - ...