Book: Crescent When a handsome professor of Arabic literature and Iraqi exile enters her life, single, 39-year-old Sirine finds herself falling in love and, in the process, starts questioning her identity as an Arab-American.

SIRINE IS THIRTY-NINE, never married, and lives in the Arab-American community of Los Angeles known as Irangeles. 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 a handsome professor of Arabic literature, an Iraqi exile, comes to the restaurant, and Sirine finds herself falling in love and, in the process, starts questioning her identity as an Arab-American

Author: Diana Abu-jaber
ISBN:0393325547

ISBN-13:9780393325546 , 978-0393325546, Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 2004/05/01
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Number of Pages: 398
Language: English

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