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Author
Language
English
Description
Raised in a conservative and emotionally volatile Palestinian family in Brooklyn, Yara thought she would finally feel free when she married a charming entrepreneur who took her to the suburbs. She's gotten to follow her dreams, completing an undergraduate degree in Art and landing a good job at the local college. As a traditional wife, she also raises their two school-aged daughters, takes care of the house, and has dinner ready when her husband gets...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Three generations of Palestinian-American women in contemporary Brooklyn are torn by individual desire, educational ambitions, a devastating tragedy, and the strict mores of traditional Arab culture.
Palestine, 1990. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her. Over the course of a week, the naïve and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and married, and is soon living in Brooklyn....
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First HarperVia edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A new novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore--from young activists in conflict with their traditional parents to the poor who clean for the rich--shows lives which intersect across divides of class, generation and religion"--
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
White House advisor Jon Bennett, his CIA partner Erin McCoy, and the Secretary of State head for the Middle East to negotiate a historic Arab-Israeli peace plan, but terrorists will do anything to stop peace.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Palestinian American woman wrestles with faith, loss, and identity before coming face-to-face with a school shooter in this searing debut. A uniquely American story told in powerful, evocative prose, The Beauty of Your Face navigates a country growing ever more divided. Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the principal of Nurrideen School for Girls, a Muslim school in the Chicago suburbs. One morning, a shooter--radicalized...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great aunt's secrets in this sweeping debut, a family saga confronting questions of sexual identity, exile, and lineage. In a Pacific Northwest hospital far from the Rummani family's ancestral home in Palestine, the heart of a stillborn baby begins to beat and her skin turns a vibrant, permanent cobalt blue. On the same day, the Rummanis' centuries-old soap factory in Nablus is destroyed...