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Randa Jarrar

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Randa Jarrar is the author of the critically acclaimed novel A Map of Home, which won a Hopwood Award, an Arab-American Book Award, and was named one of the best novels of 2008 by the Barnes and Noble Review. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Five Chapters, The Oxford American, Salon, The New York Times Magazine, Guernica, Utne, and the Progressive, and she was selected for Beirut39, which celebrates the 39 most gifted writers of Arab origin under age 40. She is working on a collection of stories and a new novel.

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Average rating: 3.68 · 533 ratings · 135 reviews · 6 distinct works · Similar authors

	A Map of Home 3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 490 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Collezionista Di Storie by Randa Jarrar (Goodreads Author), A. Crea (Translator) 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dinarzad's Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction by Pauline Kaldas (Editor/Contributor), Khaled Mattawa (Editor/Contributor), D.H. Melhem (Contributor) 3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2004	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-making Machine by Hassan Daoud, حسن داوود, Randa Jarrar (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Million Writers Award: The Best New Online Voices by Jason Sanford (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sruthi Thekkiam (Contributor), Matt Bell (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Skive Magazine - Issue 10, December 2008 by Matthew Glenn Ward (Goodreads Author) (Editor), A.G. Bennett (Contributor), Karen King (Contributor) 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Randa said: "I read this in my First Year Seminar in college, but I was 16, and I don't think much sunk in except for the //Swann in Love// section. Reading it now with fresh, wrinkled, eyes. "

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“I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted
into words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Seven Nights

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