I feel his emotions in living color. As if they are my own. If he's angry, I rage with him. If he's grieving, I do too. When he thinks about the past, I'm right there, walking beside him. I am the window to his soul, and yet, in spite of that, he's a riddle with no solution. A puzzle with too many m
Dearborn
โ Scribed by Ghassan Zeineddine
- Book ID
- 112687433
- Publisher
- Tin House Books
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 544 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781959030171
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
"Hilarious and heartbreaking." --Omar El Akkad
A sharp, tender, and uproariously funny portrait of the lives of Arab American community members in Dearborn, Michigan.
Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine's debut collection examines the diverse range and complexities of the Arab American community in Dearborn, Michigan. In ten tragicomic stories, Zeineddine explores themes of identity, generational conflicts, war trauma, migration, sexuality, queerness, home and belonging, and more.
In Dearborn, a father teaches his son how to cheat the IRS and hide their cash earnings inside of frozen chickens. Tensions heighten within a close-knit group of couples when a mysterious man begins to frequent the local gym pool, dressed in Speedos printed with nostalgic images of Lebanon. And a failed stage actor attempts to drive a young Lebanese man with ambitions of becoming a Hollywood action hero to LA,...
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I feel his emotions in living color. As if they are my own. If he's angry, I rage with him. If he's grieving, I do too. When he thinks about the past, I'm right there, walking beside him. I am the window to his soul, and yet, in spite of that, he's a riddle with no solution. A puzzle with too many m
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