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Crescent

Crescent

Author: Diana Abu-Jaber
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 2004, ©2003.
Edition/Format:   Print book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
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.
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Genre/Form: Romance fiction
novels
Novels
Fiction
Love stories
Romans
Romans, nouvelles, etc
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.

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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