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Arabian Jazz
by Diana Abu-Jaber
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780393324228 |
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Awards
Winner of the Oregon Book Award
Finalist for the National PEN/Hemingway Award
Finalist for the National PEN/Hemingway Award
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
In Diana Abu-Jaber's "impressive, entertaining" (Chicago Tribune) first novel, a small, poor-white community in upstate New York becomes home to the transplanted Jordanian family of Matussem Ramoud: his grown daughters, Jemorah and Melvina; his sister Fatima; and her husband, Zaeed. The widower Matuseem loves American jazz, kitschy lawn ornaments, and, of course, his daughters. Fatima is obsessed with seeing her nieces married — Jemorah is nearly thirty! Supernurse Melvina is firmly committed to her work, but Jemorah is ambivalent about her identity and role. Is she Arab? Is she American? Should she marry and, if so, whom?
Review:
"[A] joy to read.... You will be tempted to read passages out loud. And you should." Boston Globe
Review:
"[Abu-Jaber's] Arab-American rings musically, and hilariously, true." USA Today
Review:
"This oracular first novel, which unfurls like gossamer, [has] characters of a depth seldom found in a debut." The New Yorker
Synopsis:
In this "impressive, entertaining" (Chicago Tribune) novel, a small, poor-white community in upstate New York becomes home to the transplanted Jordanian family of Matussem Ramoud and his grown daughters.
About the Author
Diana Abu-Jaber is currently writer-in-residence at Portland State University, where she teaches literature and creative writing. Her most recent novel is Crescent.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780393324228
- Author:
- Publisher:
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Subject:
- Family
- Subject:
- New York
- Subject:
- Domestic fiction
- Subject:
- Arab Americans
- Subject:
- Arab American families
- Copyright:
- 2003
- Edition Number:
- Reissue ed.
- Series Volume:
- 743
- Publication Date:
- April 2003
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 374
- Dimensions:
- 8.28x5.66x1.02 in. .80 lbs.
