A Map of Home: A Novel
Book Details
Author(s)
Jarrar, Randa
Publisher
Penguin Books
ISBN / ASIN
0143116266
ISBN-13
9780143116264
Availability
In Stock.
Sales Rank
#244,988
Category
Fiction
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
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.
Read Randa Jarrar's posts on the Penguin Blog.
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.
Read Randa Jarrar's posts on the Penguin Blog.
