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Amreekiya : a novel / by Mahmoud, Lena,author.(CARDINAL)804206;
Isra Shadi, a twenty-one-year-old woman of mixed Palestinian and white descent, lives in California with her paternal amu (uncle), amtu (aunt), and cousins after the death of her mother and abandonment by her father at a young age. Ever the outcast in her amu and amtu's household, they eagerly encourage Isra to marry and leave. After rejecting a string of undesirable suitors, she marries Yusef, an old love from her past. In Amreekiya, author Lena Mahmoud deftly juggles two storylines, alternating between Isra's youth and her current life as a married twentysomething who is torn between cultures and trying to define herself. The chapters chronicle various moments in Isra's narrative, including the volatile relationship of her parents and the trials and joys of forging a partnership with Yusef. Mahmoud also examines Isra's first visit to Palestine, the effects of sexism, how language affects identity, and what it means to have a love that overcomes unbearable pain. An exploration of womanhood from an underrepresented voice in American literature, Amreekiya is simultaneously unique and relatable. Featuring an authentic array of characters, Mahmoud's first novel is a much-needed story in a divided world.
Subjects: Fiction.; Palestinian Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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You exist too much : a novel / by Arafat, Zaina,author.;
"On a hot day in Bethlehem, a twelve-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is queer, her mother's response only intensifies a sense of shame: "You exist too much," she tells her daughter. Told in vignettes that flash between the U.S. and the Middle East--from New York to Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine--Zaina Arafat's debut novel traces her protagonist's progress from blushing teen to sought-after DJ and aspiring writer. In Brooklyn, she moves into an apartment with her first serious girlfriend and tries to content herself with their comfortable relationship. But soon her longings, so closely hidden during her teenage years, explode out into reckless romantic encounters and obsessions with other people. Her desire to thwart her own destructive impulses will eventually lead her to The Ledge, an unconventional treatment center that identifies her affliction as "love addiction." In this strange, enclosed society she will start to consider the unnerving similarities between her own internal traumas and divisions and those of the places that have formed her. Opening up the fantasies and desires of one young woman caught between cultural, religious, and sexual identities, You Exist Too Much is a captivating story charting two of our most intense longings-for love and a place to call home." -- Dust jacket flap.
Subjects: Lesbian fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Palestinian American girls;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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Evil eye [sound recording] / by Rum, Etaf,author.(CARDINAL)783811; Assadourian, Vaneh,narrator.(CARDINAL)833762; Shalan, Gail,narrator.;
Read by Vaneh Assadourian and Gail Shalan.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 home. With her family balanced with her professional ambitions, Yara knows that her life is infinitely more rewarding than her own mother's. So why doesn't it feel like enough? After her dream of chaperoning a student trip to Europe evaporates and she responds to a colleague's racist provocation, Yara is put on probation at work and must attend mandatory counseling to keep her position. Her mother blames a family curse for the trouble she's facing, and while Yara doesn't really believe in old superstitions, she still finds herself growing increasingly uneasy with her mother's warning and the possibility of falling victim to the same mistakes. Shaken to the core by these indictments of her life, Yara finds her carefully constructed world beginning to implode. To save herself, Yara must reckon with the reality that the difficulties of the childhood she thought she left behind have very real, and damaging, implications not just on her own future but that of her daughters.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Novels.; Palestinian Americans; Families; Racism;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Too soon : a novel [sound recording] / by Shamieh, Betty,author,narrator.; Antaramian, Jacqueline,narrator.; Issaq, Lameece,narrator.;
Read by the author, with Jacqueline Antaramian & Lameece Issaq.With biting hilarity, Too soon introduces us to a trio of bold and unforgettable voices. This dramatic saga follows one family's epic journey from fleeing war-torn Jaffa in 1948, chasing the American Dream in Detroit and San Francisco in the sixties and seventies, hustling in the New York theatre scene post-9/11, and daring to stage a show in Palestine in 2012. Upon learning one of them is living on borrowed time, three women fight to live, make art, and love on their own terms.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Palestinian American women; Families; American Dream;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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The skin and its girl : a novel / by Cypher, Sarah,author.(CARDINAL)866343;
"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 in an air strike. The family matriarch and keeper of all Rummani lore, Aunt Nuha, believes that the blue girl embodies their sacred history, harkening to a time when the Rummanis were among the wealthiest soap-makers and their blue soap was a symbol of a legendary love. Decades later, Betty returns to her AuntNuha's gravestone, faced with a difficult decision: Should she stay in the only country she's every known or should she follow her heart for the woman she loves, perpetuating her family's cycle of exile? Betty finds her answer in partially translated notebooks that reveal her aunt's complex life and struggle with her own sexuality, which Nuha hid to help the family emigrate to the U.S. But as Betty soon discovers, her aunt hid much more than that. The Skin and Its Girl is a searing, poetic tale about desire and identity and a provocative exploration of how we let stories divide, unite, and define us-and even wield the power to restore a broken family. Sarah Cypher is that rare debut novelist who writes with the mastery and flair of a seasoned storyteller." --
Subjects: Lesbian fiction.; Novels.; Palestinian Americans; Great-aunts;
Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 18
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The coin : a novel / by Zaher, Yasmin,author.(CARDINAL)897105;
"The Coin's narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory, and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed from the start. In New York, she strives to put down roots. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys, where her eccentric methods cross boundaries. She befriends a homeless swindler, and the two participate in an intercontinental scheme reselling Birkin bags. In an unforgettable denouement, her childhood memories converge with her material and existential statelessness, and the narrator unravels spectacularly"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Palestinian Americans; Palestinian American women; Teachers; Psychic trauma;
Available copies: 20 / Total copies: 21
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Out of place : a memoir / by Said, Edward W.(CARDINAL)723702;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Said, Edward W.; Palestinian Americans; Intellectuals;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Places of mind : a life of Edward Said / by Brennan, Timothy,1953-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A biography of the Palestinian thinker Edward Said"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Said, Edward W.; Palestinian Americans; Intellectuals;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Keepers of the gate / by Land, Jon.(CARDINAL)347339;
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Fiction.; Holocaust survivors; Palestinian Americans; Policewomen;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Keepers of the gate : a Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea novel, book 4 / by Land, Jon.(CARDINAL)347339;
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Holocaust survivors; Palestinian Americans; Policewomen;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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