A Map of Home
Title | A Map of Home PDF eBook |
Author | Randa Jarrar |
Publisher | Other Press, LLC |
Total Pages | 303 |
Release | 2008-09-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1590513274 |
Nidali, the rebellious daughter of an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father, narrates the story of her childhood in Kuwait, her teenage years in Egypt (to where she and her family fled the 1990 Iraqi invasion), and her family's last flight to Texas. Nidali mixes humor with a sharp, loving portrait of an eccentric middle-class family, 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 in 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 her thirteenth birthday; and the scare she gives her family when she runs away from home. Funny, charming, and heartbreaking, A Map of Home is the kind of book Tristram Shandy or Huck Finn would have narrated had they been born Egyptian-Palestinian and female in the 1970s.
The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman
Title | The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman PDF eBook |
Author | Darcy Pattison |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 57 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Dolls |
ISBN | 0152023291 |
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A Map of Home
Title | A Map of Home PDF eBook |
Author | Randa Jarrar |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 305 |
Release | 2009-08-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0143116266 |
From America to the Middle East and back again— the sparkling story of one girl’s childhood, by an exciting new voice in literary fiction In this fresh, funny, and fearless debut novel, Randa Jarrar chronicles the coming-of-age of Nidali, one of the most unique and irrepressible narrators in contemporary fiction. Born in 1970s Boston to an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father, the rebellious Nidali—whose name is a feminization of the word “struggle”—soon moves to a very different life in Kuwait. There the family leads a mildly eccentric middle-class existence until the Iraqi invasion drives them first to Egypt and then to Texas. This critically acclaimed debut novel is set to capture the hearts of everyone who has ever wondered what their own map of home might look like.
Circular ... . Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Wisconsin
Title | Circular ... . Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Wisconsin PDF eBook |
Author | University of Wisconsin. College of Agriculture. Agricultural Extension Service |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1232 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Circular
Title | Circular PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 684 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Agriculture |
ISBN |
Map My Home
Title | Map My Home PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Boothroyd |
Publisher | Lerner Publications |
Total Pages | 28 |
Release | 2013-08-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1467717398 |
See how a boy makes a map of his home showing fire escape routes. Simple text takes early readers step by step through the types of features a fire safety map needs to have.
Federal Register
Title | Federal Register PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1090 |
Release | 1995-07-03 |
Genre | Administrative law |
ISBN |