Sarcastic essays, Arabic lyrics juxtaposed with American rap, and other anecdotes present cross-cultural observations that are both humorous and wistful.”- Oxford American Jarrar’s prose is as delightfully dry and intense as her main character.
“In Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home, Nidali, a refugee from Saddam’s bombs, finds a Texan adolescence dizzying to navigate with her Egyptian-Grecian-Palestinian background. A coming-of-age story that’s both singular and universal-an outstanding debut." - Kirkus Reviews “Jarrar is a funny, incisive writer, and she’s positively heroic in her refusal to employ easy sentimentality or cheap pathos. "Randa Jarrar takes all the sappy, beloved clichTs about 'where you hang your hat' and blows them to smithereens in her energizing, caustically comic debut novel." - The Christian Science Monitor " A Map of Home will leave you laughing out loud." - Entertainment Weekly
Jarrar's lack of sentimentality, and her wry sense of humor, make A Map of Home a treasure." - People (four stars)
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