Map of Home

Name: Map of Home
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ISBN: 9781590512722

ISBN-10: 1590512723

ISBN-13: 9781590512722

Edition: 2008

Authors: Randa Jarrar

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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. Nidali mixes humor with a loving and vibrant celebration of an eccentric middle-class family in the Arab world, and this perspective keeps her buoyant through the hardships she encounters: the humiliation of going through a checkpoint on a visit to her father's home on the West Bank; the fights with her father, who wants her to become a famous professor and stay away from boys; the end of her childhood as Iraq invades Kuwait on…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Publication date: 9/2/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English