6/30/2023 0 Comments Crescent abu jaber![]() ![]() Falling in love brings Sirene's whole heart to a boil-stirring up memories of her parents and questions about her identity as an Arab American. She works as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, her passions aroused only by the preparation of food-until an unbearably handsome Arabic literature professor starts dropping by for a little home cooking. Thirty-nine-year-old Sirine, never married, lives with a devoted Iraqi-immigrant uncle and an adoring dog named King Babar. ![]() Praised by critics from The New Yorker to USA Today for her first novel, Arabian Jazz ("an oracular tale that unfurls like gossamer"), Diana Abu-Jaber weaves with spellbinding magic a multidimensional love story set in the Arab-American community of Los Angeles. An Arab-American novel as delicious as Like Water for Chocolate. ![]()
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