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false 1196209 <![CDATA[Arabian Jazz]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223630207m/1196209.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223630207s/1196209.jpg Chicago Tribune) first novel, a small, poor-white community in upstate New York becomes home to the transplanted Jordanian family of Matussem Ramoud: his grown daughters, Jemorah and Melvina; his sister Fatima; and her husband, Zaeed. The widower Matuseem loves American jazz, kitschy lawn ornaments, and, of course, his daughters. Fatima is obsessed with seeing her nieces married—Jemorah is nearly thirty! Supernurse Melvina is firmly committed to her work, but Jemorah is ambivalent about her identity and role. Is she Arab? Is she American? Should she marry and, if so, whom?

Winner of the Oregon Book Award and finalist for the National PEN/Hemingway Award, Arabian Jazz is "a joy to read.... You will be tempted to read passages out loud. And you should" (Boston Globe). USA Today praises Abu-Jaber's "gift for dialogue...her Arab-American rings musically, and hilariously, true." Reading group guide included.

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]]> 1993 2 0 false Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 29 11:50:47 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 11 09:26:27 -0800 2009 Have read all her other books..........this was the first and least sure handed. I love her books, but this one, as another reader commented, was long on dialogue, character forming and short on plot. It didn't draw me in. I skimmed, and then quickly read the end. It never becomes compelli...]]> 58818872 825807 149569 0393324222 9780393324228 19 <![CDATA[Arabian Jazz: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172203209m/149569.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172203209s/149569.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149569.Arabian_Jazz_A_Novel 3.38 121 Chicago Tribune) first novel, a small, poor-white community in upstate New York becomes home to the transplanted Jordanian family of Matussem Ramoud: his grown daughters, Jemorah and Melvina; his sister Fatima; and her husband, Zaeed. The widower Matuseem loves American jazz, kitschy lawn ornaments, and, of course, his daughters. Fatima is obsessed with seeing her nieces married—Jemorah is nearly thirty! Supernurse Melvina is firmly committed to her work, but Jemorah is ambivalent about her identity and role. Is she Arab? Is she American? Should she marry and, if so, whom?

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