Randa Jarrar
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Nidali, the rebellious daughter of an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father, narrates her story from her childhood in Kuwait, her early teenage years in Egypt (to where she and her family fled the 1990 Iraqi invasion), to her family's last flight to Texas.
Author
Language
English
Description
In her first story collection, Jarrar employs a particular, rather than rhetorical approach to race and gender. Thus we have "How Can I Be of Use to You," with its complicated relationship between a distinguished Egyptian feminist and her young intern, demonstrating that gender politics are never straightforward, and both generations - old and new - take advantage of each other. There's also a healthy dose of magic surrealism, as in the wild and witty...