(Paperback)

Keynote

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A darkly hilarious, at times painful story of an Arab-American girl's challenging coming-of-age.

"Brutal Language of Love".

The stories in this collection feature various heroines who have an unusual approach to love. Tales featured include that of a teenager who spends her afternoons bathing with the school bully, a woman who becomes a lesbian while buying bras, and a girl who marries an Egyptian to prove a point.

(Hardback)

When Jasira's mother discovers her boyfriend's feelings for her thirteen-year-old daughter, she packs Jasira off to Houston, to live with the Daddy she barely knows. Her father is unable to show his daughter the love she craves, and still less able to handle her feelings about her changing body, which Jasira begins to suspect disgusts him.