- Fiction, Immigrants, Arab American women, Fiction, coming of age
Nidali, the rebellious daughter of an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father, narrates her story from her childhood in Kuwait, her early teenage years in Egypt (to where she and her family fled the 1990 Iraqi invasion), to her family's last flight to Texas.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and prestige.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Randa Jarrar
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 292
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group, כנרת, Da kuai wen hua chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English, Chinese, heb
- ISBN
- 9781590512722
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