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Genre/Form: | Romance fiction novels Novels Fiction Love stories Romans Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: | Diana Abu-Jaber |
ISBN: | 0393325547 9780393325546 |
OCLC Number: | 55628454 |
Notes: | "First published as a Norton paperback 2004"--Title page verso Includes a reading group guide. |
Awards: | American Book Award, 2004. |
Description: | 398 pages ; 22 cm |
Responsibility: | Diana Abu-Jaber. |
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Abstract:
Never married, living with an Iraqi-immigrant uncle and devoted dog, and working as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, thirty-nine-year-old Sirine finds her life turned upside down by a handsome Arabic literature professor.
Sirine, the heroine of this deliciously romantic romp is thirty-nine, never married, and living in the Arab-American community of Los Angeles. She has a passion for cooking and works contentedly in a Lebanese restaurant, while her storytelling uncle and her saucy boss, Umm Nadia, believe she should be trying harder to find a husband. One day Hanif, a handsome professor of Arabic literature, an Iraqi exile, comes to the restaurant. Sirine falls in love and finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew about Hanif, as well as her own torn identity as an Arab-American. -- Provided by publisher.
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