Synopses & Reviews
Review
"I truly loved I, the Divine and listened raptly as Sarah Nour El-Din revealed her extraordinary life as would a newfound friend. Like so many Americans with roots across the ocean, Sarah is trying desperately to define herself as an independent soul by separating from the old family, the old world. Her journey (at once heart-wrenching and heartwarming) reveals that the odyssey of identity requires that we must gather our families close in order to understand ourselves better." Susanne Pari, author of The Fortune Catcher
Review
"A profound, brilliant novel, filled with deep insight into the many different stories that make up one life. Alameddine illuminates the emotional lives of his characters without losing the realities of the world in which they live. An original, transformative achievement." Sarah Schulman, author of Girls, Visions and Everything
Review
"Rabih Alameddine is one our most daring writers daring not in the cheap sense of lurid or racy but as a surgeon, a philosopher, an explorer, or a dancer. In this delightful novel, he takes his greatest risks yet, and succeeds brilliantly, in a work that while marked by radical formal innovation, manages to be warm, sad, funny, and moving." Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Review
"I, the Divine is divine. Sarah is wonderful, irresistibly unique, funny, and amazing....And the structure is literary genius, humorously naughty in its satire, and perfect to the notion of someone reinventing and revising herself a thoroughly American concept. I loved reading it, love it so much I will have to re-read it again soon." Amy Tan, author of The Bonesetter's Daughter
About the Author
Rabih Alameddine is a writer and artist living in San Francisco. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Koolaids: The Art of War and The Perv.