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January 04, 1978 in Chicago, The United States

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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 is a member of 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.


Average rating: 3.65 · 401 ratings · 116 reviews · 4 distinct works
A Map of Home
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 392 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
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I LOVE this book. In the brief 4 days I've owned it, I've felt like a more open person, and yes, like a better mother. This is what the best literature and art does for us: transforms and inspires us.
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I'm almost done reading this gem- read half of it en route to Tel Aviv Airport. When I was denied entry into Israel (so much for "open" cities), I read almost the other half on the way home.
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Jorge Luis Borges
“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
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