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Arab Americans Fiction Children of divorced parents Fiction Children of immigrants Fiction Conflict of generations Fiction Family secrets Fiction Fathers and daughters Fiction Fathers and sons Fiction FICTION / Literary Lebanese Americans Fiction Lebanon History Civil War, 1975-1990 FictionErian, Alicia.
Summary: Sent to live with her strict Lebanese father in Texas upon the outbreak of the Gulf War, Arab-American teen Jasira endures racial taunts from her new classmates and enters into a dangerously exploitative relationship with a bigoted Army reservist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIDimechkie, Karim.
Summary: "Max lives with his father, Rasheed, a sweet, funny man who fled Lebanon's civil war for New Jersey when Max was a baby. Rasheed is enamored of his idea of America--baseball and barbeques--and has tried to shed his Lebanese heritage completely. "When we are in America," Reed (for he goes by Reed in America, not Rasheed) tells Max, "we are Americans." Rasheed has a singular purpose in life--to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2015