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Snake Hips: Belly Dancing and How I Found True Love

by Anne Thomas Soffee

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This hilariously uplifting memoir follows an Arab–American womans merry life as she shimmies her way from getting dumped by her tattoo-artist boyfriend to coming to grips with being single, ample, and 30. In the tradition of Bridget Joness Diary but true, this uniquely American story is filled with colorful characters such as Rosie, the corn-rowed truck-driving belly dancer; Fahed, cologne-doused rich loser; Too-Tall Mary, a member of an amateur belly dancing troupe; and Gimmel, the authors Jewish great-uncle. While searching online for a sexy sheik to save her from her lackluster existence, Soffee finds a belly dancing class in a catalog and, against the wishes of her Lebanese–American extended family, enrolls in an attempt to find her roots and heal her heart. Her life will never be the same as she discovers the riotous world of American belly dancing, a warm and welcoming subculture where younger and thinner are not necessarily better. Surprised to find happiness among the zils and trills of attending classes and performing in moose lodges and county fairs, she finds true love along the way.

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This hilarious and uplifting memoir follows an Arab-American woman as she comes to grips with being single, ample, and 30. In the tradition of "Bridget Jones's Diary, " this true, but uniquely American story is peppered with colorful characters encountered by the author as she discovers the riotous world of American belly dancing.
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About the Author

Anne Thomas Soffee earned an MFA in creative writing from Virginia Commonwealth University and is a teacher of emotionally disturbed children. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781556524585
Subtitle:
Belly Dancing and How I Found True Love
Author:
Soffee, Anne Thomas
Publisher:
Chicago Review Press
Location:
Chicago, Ill.
Subject:
Women
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Dance - General
Subject:
Dance - Ethnic
Subject:
Belly dance
Subject:
Lebanese Americans
Subject:
Richmond
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
Subject:
BIO026000
Subject:
Richmond (va.)
Subject:
Soffee, Anne Thomas
Subject:
Biography-Women
Copyright:
2002
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Edition Description:
Trade Cloth
Series Volume:
EPA-600/7-80-099
Publication Date:
October 2002
Binding:
Hardback
Language:
English
Pages:
288
Dimensions:
8.50 x 5.50 in 1.10 lb
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