Alicia Erian

Sent to live with her strict Lebanese father in Texas upon the outbreak of the Gulf War, Arab-American teen Jasira endures racial taunts from her new classmates and enters into a dangerously exploitative relationship with a bigoted Army reservist. A first novel. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

A Novel

Towelhead

Un romanzo bello e sorprendente, dove la vita quotidiana è raccontata con una lucidità acuminata e una partecipazione tenera che si lasciano indietro di gran lunga il miglior Raymond Carver, facendoci entrare nel corpo e nella testa di un’adolescente di oggi con un’abilità da scrittrice vera.

Beduina

Alicia Erian's characters are brave, disarming, affectionate, and deeply flawed. They inhabit the not-so-very-wide space between a good intention and a bad outcome. In "Alcatraz," we meet a middle-school spelling champion who spends her afternoons taking baths with the boy next door. In "Almonds and Cherries," a young woman turns an unexpectedly arousing bra-shopping experience into a short film, with ramifications for everyone around her. In "On the Occasion of My Ruination," a college-bound student plots to lose her virginity to a pizza parlor waiter. The Brutal Language of Love challenges traditional notions of right and wrong with what has become Erian's signature -- an achingly stylish humor and a deep understanding of the brutal truth about human nature. These surprising, provocative, and deeply resonant stories marked the emergence of a major talent

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