Diana Abu-Jaber: Crescent: A Novel

Crescent: A Novel


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Sirine, the heroine of this "deliciously romantic romp" (?Vanity Fair?) 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.

One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this collection of stories has been selected by English teachers for its appeal to Key Stage 4 students. It includes stories by Kate Chopin, Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Gaskell, Oscar Wilde, Olive Shreiner, Charlotte Bronte and others. Flint Creed has also lost someone he loved when the woman he hoped to marry chose his younger brother instead. Now he must find a ranch wife of his own. Crescent: A Novel pdf But every female in the remote Wyoming Territory is too old, too young, or already married . . . until he discovers Hannah on the prairie. Flint doesn t pretend to love her, but he doesn t tell her he loves another woman, either. Hannah doesn t pretend to love him, but she doesn t tell him about the child she carries. Though danger surrounds them on the Wyoming frontier, the greatest threats of all are the secrets within revelations that could destroy the new life Hannah and Flint have begun to cherish."


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Author: Diana Abu-Jaber
Number of Pages: 416 pages
Published Date: 06 Sep 2013
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780393325546
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