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    <body><![CDATA[This book tells the story of a girl, Nidali, growing up in Kuwait during the time before and during the Iraqi invasion, eventually fleeing to Egypt and the US.  This book was just okay for me.  I felt sometimes that the writing seemed a little forced.  I've generally appreciated the perspective of c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37331504">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I REALLY enjoyed this book.  It is HONEST and RAW and RIPE. Love the expletives the character use like:<br/>&quot;May the caves they live in be their eternal dwellings!&quot;<br/>&quot;Sons of Whores!&quot; <br/>and some other good ones that I am too embarrassed to write.<br/>The dialogue is lik...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40852235">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)<br/><br/>(UPDATE, DECEMBER 2008: I heard today from this book's author, Randa Jarrar, who wanted to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32788744">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The figurative language and images in this novel are simply breathtaking.  There are so many creative surprises and literary pleasure along the way--switching to a second person voice in one chapter, incorporating hilarious compositions in another, referring to Hemingway's story &quot;Hills Like Whi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35638456">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book.  It is a great example, along with Junot Diaz’s writing, of how the voice of a narrator can make you fall in love with a character and what she might have to say before the story really even begins.  It is a bildungsroman, starring Nidali, a spunky charismatic firecracker of a gi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32260013">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading C(h)ristine's glowing review of this book, I feel like a grinch for having given it only two stars, but I am going to stand by my rating.<br/><br/>First, the good stuff: this book is a female coming-of-age novel (a genre I'm especially interested in, though maybe my special interest ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31920470">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this thinking it was a true story – I don’t know why. And thinking it was real, I didn’t like how the author wrote about her life. Now that I’m done and realize that it IS a novel, I still don’t like the story very much but I did find it very interesting. The tone of the book was so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73667277">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Decent coming-of-age novel (based on Jarrar's own experiences, I gather) has an engaging heroine, but it's let down by shifts in pacing, which leaves a lot of the big events of the last few chapters feeling rushed. It's too bad, because by then, Nidali's vibrant, sometimes raunchy sense of humor is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49703252">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nidali has an American passport, since she was born in Boston. Her Mama is Egyptian and Greek, her father is Palestinian, making Nidali &quot;half-and-half.&quot; Growing up in Kuwait, she never quite feels at home - she has her friends, but she is on a different wavelength. She is a smart girl, but...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69042757">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[First off, Randa is a really good friend of mine.  We attended Sarah Lawrence College together.  I am very proud of her and her dedication to her work.  But this is not why A Map of Home gets such a great review from me.<br/><br/>This is an excellent first novel.  The dialogue is wonderful, it's c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60914603">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Randa Jarrar's first novel and it left me wondering what her second would be like...because this one packed a WHOLE LOT of major themes into 190 pages.  It was as if she just had SO MANY stories to tell that they all burst out at once.  They are very good stories, very well told, but I think...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53006055">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The coming of age novel is a traditional and logical starting point for any aspiring novelist. In this time of many books and fewer readers, the challenge is to create a unique voice which can be heard above the din. In Randa Jarrar's debut, &quot;A Map of Home,&quot; we find a voice which rises abo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70101158">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Rare is the book that makes one stay up to finish it; this is one of them, simultaneously circling in its family dramas and <br/>spiralling outwards in its connections to history and place. Adult and teen readers alike would enjoy Nidali’s honest portrayal...&quot; (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://Bookbrowse.com">Bookbrowse.com</a> review)....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29967479">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read a lot of memoirs about the Middle East, but this one was unique. The author's humor, her incredible use of language (including bad language!), and her ambition and love for life really made reading it a joy. I hope she writes a lot more books. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Now this was a good time.  I'd read a bit about the author and the book at maudnewton.com, and it sounded like just the thing I needed--funny, vibrant, poignant, and otherwise just delicious.  I loved Jarrar's style and wit.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In this uneven coming of age story, Nidali  has to keep moving from country to country with her very dysfunctional family. There are things I like about this novel, such as the writing, the character of Nidali, and getting glimpses of the different countries, especially during the Gulf War. But Nida...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77094091">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Growing up in Kuwait, Egypt and Texas, Nidali is never sure exactly where she belongs as a smart, female, Muslim, part Palestinian, Greek and Egyptian immigrant. Forced to flee Kuwait during the first Gulf War, 14-year old Nidali and her piano playing mother and poet/architect father seek to start a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70402851">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a coming of age tale about a girl named Nidali who grows up in Kuwait, but has to move with her family to the United States after the Iraqi invasion. The metaphors and imagery of the setting used by the author were intriguing. The story starting with a young narrator in another country gave...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43620075">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a beautifully written first novel. The first-person narration is carefully crafted--a convincing voice of a young woman growing up with a foot in (at least) two worlds. I appreciated, too, the chance to learn something about Kuwait, especially during the time of the first Gulf War, and get a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77747969">more...</a>]]></body>
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