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| by Diana Abu-Jaber |
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| Known for her books on Arab-American themes, Crescent, Arabian Jazz, and The Language of Baklava, Abu-Jaber makes a departure here, into a whole new world of mystery, alienation and unanswered questions. Lena Dawson is a... Read More |
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| Publication Date: May 2008 |
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| The Language of Baklava |
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| by Diana Abu-Jaber |
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| In a memoir about the joys and difficulties of straddling two cultures, the author of Arabian Jazz describes her life in upstate New York with an extended Arab and American family, her family's move 'home' to Jordan, and her return to the... Read More |
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| Publication Date: March 2006 |
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| Crescent |
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| by Diana Abu-Jaber |
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| Arab-American Sirine, a 39-year-old chef in a Lebanese restaurant in Los Angeles, has never been married--or even particularly interested in men. Then a handsome professor falls in love with her, and as their romance develops, Sirine finds... Read More |
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| Publication Date: May 2004 |
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| Arabian Jazz |
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| by Diana Abu-Jaber |
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| Winner of the Oregon Book Award and finalist for the National PEN/Hemingway Award. In Diana Abu-Jaber's 'impressive, entertaining' (Chicago Tribune) first novel, a small, poor-white community in upstate New York becomes home to the... Read More |
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| Publication Date: April 2003 |
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