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2024., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: NEW Fic Gow Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family. For the Shah parents, who came to America twenty years earlier with little more than an education and their new marriage, this move represents the culmination of years of hard work and dreaming. For their children, born and raised in America, success is not so simple. For the most part, these differences among the five members of the Shah family are minor irritants, arguments between parents and children, older and younger siblings. But one Saturday night, the twelve-year-old son is arrested. The fallout from that event will shake each family member's perception of themselves as individuals, as community members, as Americans, and will lead each to consider: how do we define success? At what cost comes ambition? And what is our role and responsibility in the cultural mosaic of modern America?
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2017., Adult, Arachnide, House of Anansi Press Inc. Call No: QWF Fic Maz Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Unwilling to endure a culture of silence and submission, and disowned by her family, Nadia leaves her native Tunisia in 1984 amidst deadly violence, chaos, and rioting brought on by rising food costs, eventually emigrating to Canada to begin her life. More than twenty-five years later, Nadia's daughter Lila reluctantly travels to Tunisia to learn about her mother's birth country. While she's there, she connects with Nadia's childhood friends, Neila and Mounir. She uncovers agonizing truths about her mother's life as a teenager and imagines what it might have been like to grow up in fear of political instability and social unrest. As she is making these discoveries, protests over poor economic conditions and lack of political freedom are increasing, and soon, Lila finds herself in the midst of another revolution--one that will inflame the country and change the Arab world, and her, forever. Weaving together the voices of two women at two pivotal moments in history, the Tunisian Bread Riots in 1984 and the Jasmine Revolution in 2010, Hope Has Two Daughters is a bracing, vivid story that perfectly captures life inside revolution."--From publisher.
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By Naga, Noor2022., Graywolf Press Call No: Fic Nag Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An Egyptian American woman visiting her parents' homeland begins a dark romance with an unemployed photographer who is addicted to cocaine and living in a rooftop shack in Cairo, in a novel about identity politics.
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By Ko, Lisa2017., Workman Publishing Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: "One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been taken away--and how a mother learns to live with the mistakes of her past".
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2004., Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Call No: Fic Ali Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2004, c2003., Houghton Mifflin Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: A young man born of Indian parents in America struggles with issues of identity from his teens to his thirties.
![The namesake [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT74719.JPG "The namesake [eBook]")
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-- Vaclav and Lenac2011., Adult, Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Tan Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Bonded by their shared status as children of Russian immigrants in spite of disparate family experiences, Vaclav and Lena team up as aspiring magicians when Lena's abusive domestic situation prompts her rescue by Vaclav's mother."--NoveList.
