Abu-Jaber, Diana.
Summary: Never married, living with an Iraqi-immigrant uncle and devoted dog, and working as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, thirty-nine-year-old Sirine finds her life turned upside down by a handsome Arabic literature professor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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Summary: In a memoir about the joys and difficulties of straddling two cultures, the author describes her life with an extended Arab and American family, exploring the role of food, cooking, and eating in shaping her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005
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Summary: "A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of Crescent. Amani is hooked on a mystery-a poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her father's books. It seems to have been written by her grandmother, a refugee who arrived in Jordan during the First World War. Soon the perfect occasion to investigate arises: her Uncle Hafez, an advisor to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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Summary: Balances are struck in this luminous first novel-between two radically distinct cultures, between obligation and self-will, between past and future, between hilarity and heartbreak-as the Jordanian family of Matussem Ramoud settles in a small, poor-white community in upstate New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2003
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Summary: After a five year absence, an eighteen-year-old runaway returns to her family in Miami to deal with the guilty secret that caused her to flee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2007