What About Her?

In his follow up work to Who Are You?, Ok Waleed explores the many faces of relationships between women and men, mothers and sons, sisters and brothers, girlfriends and boyfriends in 21st-century life. Fundamental to this exploration is the theme of use: how we use each other to fill an emotional need, and the chaos, euphoria, and regret that can follow from it. The present collection asks the reader to play a double role, envisioning both the perspective of those who use others, and who are in turn used. By employing a combination of rich life experience and insightful imagination, revealing honesty and creative wordplay, Waleed captures in a single work the tragedy, beauty, love, and heartache shared between the sexes. We come to see in ourselves the many faces of the lover, the player, the user, and the used, the rejected, the accepted, among many others, inviting us to be honest with ourselves and ask: have we really considered the question, What about her?