β Scribed by Randa Jarrar
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In her first story collection, Jarrar employs a particular, rather than rhetorical approach to race and gender. Thus we have "How Can I Be of Use to You," with its complicated relationship between a distinguished Egyptian feminist and her young intern, demonstrating that gender politics are never straightforward, and both generations--old and new--take advantage of each other. There's also a healthy dose of magic surrealism, as in the wild and witty story "Zelda the Halfie" which follows a breed of half Ibexes/half humans and their various tribulations. The writing is peppered with gorgeous imagery: a moon reflected in an ice cream scoop, breath that runs ahead of its body, and two apartments in a high rise whose tenants precisely mirror each other.
Randa Jarrar is the author of a highly successful novel, A Map of Home , which received an Arab-American Book Award and was named one of the best novels of 2008 by the Barnes & Noble Review. She...
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