7/4/2023 0 Comments A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar![]() ![]() Jarrar explores familiar adolescent ground stifling parental expectations, precarious friendships, sensuality and first love but her exhilarating voice and flawless timing make this a standout. At first, Nidali is disappointed to learn that feeling rootless doesn't make her an outsider in the States, and soon it turns out the precocious and endearing Arab chick isn't very different from other American girls, a reality that only her father may find difficult to accept. But they don't stay long in Egypt, and after the war, Nidali's father finds work in Texas. During the occupation, the family flees to Alexandria in a wacky caravan, bribing soldiers along the way with whiskey and silk ties. A younger brother is born in Kuwait, rounding out a family of complex citizenships. Nidali Ammar is born in Boston to a Greek-Egyptian mother and a Palestinian father, and moves to Kuwait at a very young age, staying there until she's 13, when Iraq invades. Aware of her mixed background and jarred by the move between starkly different cultural. It follows the first-person account of a girl named Nidali, born to a Palestinian father and Egyptian mother, who moves from various temporary homes in the Middle East to Boston, Massachusetts. ![]() Jarrar's sparkling debut about an audacious Muslim girl growing up in Kuwait, Egypt and Texas is intimate, perceptive and very, very funny. A Map of Home a book by Randa Jarrar 25,672,578.51 raised for local bookstores A Map of Home Randa Jarrar (Author) FORMAT Paperback 17.00 15. A Map of Home is a 2008 coming-of-age novel by Randa Jarrar. ![]()
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