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.
Author: Diana Abu-Jaber
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/17/2004
Pages: 398
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780393325546
Language: English
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