The wrong end of the table: a mostly comic memoir of a Muslim Arab American woman just trying to fit in

✍ Scribed by Aslan, Reza;Salman, Ayser

• Book ID: 100539667
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 264 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: United States.
• ISBN: 1510742085

✦ Synopsis

An Immigrant Love-Hate Story of What it Means to Be American
You know that feeling of being at the wrong end of the table? Like you're at a party but all the good stuff is happening out of earshot (#FOMO)? That's life--especially for an immigrant.
What happens when a shy, awkward Arab girl with a weird name and an unfortunate propensity toward facial hair is uprooted from her comfortable (albeit fascist-regimed) homeland of Iraq and thrust into the cold, alien town of Columbus, Ohio--with its Egg McMuffins, Barbie dolls, and kids playing doctor everywhere you turned?
This is Ayser Salman's story. First comes Emigration, then Naturalization, and finally Assimilation--trying to fit in among her blonde-haired, blue-eyed counterparts, and always feeling left out. On her journey to Americanhood, Ayser witnesses a blowjob at pre-kindergarten daycare, breaks one of her parents' rules ("Thou shalt not participate as an actor in the school musical where...

✦ Subjects

United States