false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174500059m/407942.jpg 407942 6 Named after the "divine" Sarah Bernhardt, red-haired Sarah Nour El-Din is "wonderful, irresistibly unique, funny, and amazing," raves Amy Tan. Determined to make of her life a work of art, she tries to tell her story, sometimes casting it as a memoir, sometimes a novel, always fascinatingly incomplete. "Alameddine's new novel unfolds like a secret... creating a tale...humorous and heartbreaking and always real" (<I>Los Angeles Times</I>). <P>"[W]ith each new approach, [Sarah] sheds another layer of her pretension, revealing another truth about her humanity" (<I>San Francisco Weekly</I>). Raised in a hybrid family shaped by divorce and remarriage, and by Beirut in wartime, Sarah finds a fragile peace in self-imposed exile in the United States. Her extraordinary dignity is supported by a best friend, a grown-up son, occasional sensual pleasures, and her determination to tell her own story. "Like her narrative, [Sarah's] life is broken and fragmented. [But] the bright, strange, often startling pieces...are moving and memorable" (<I>Boston Globe</I>). Reading group guide included. 397249 1985 I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters total:129|5:49|4:47|3:28|2:4|1:1| 129 526 191 24 407942 0393323560 9780393323566 111 21 4.08 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174500059m/407942.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/407942.I_the_Divine_A_Novel_in_First_Chapters 5 0 false Mon Jul 20 09:41:07 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 09:41:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 407942 0393323560 9780393323566 111 21 4.08 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174500059m/407942.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/407942.I_the_Divine_A_Novel_in_First_Chapters 4 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 11 14:52:58 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 16:25:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1598083 0297607944 9780297607946 9 2 4.08 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185673943m/1598083.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1598083.I_the_Divine 3 0 false Sat Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 08:31:47 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 08:40:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 407942 0393323560 9780393323566 111 21 4.08 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174500059m/407942.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/407942.I_the_Divine_A_Novel_in_First_Chapters 4 0 false Wed Feb 25 15:18:38 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 15:19:50 -0800 2009 407942 0393323560 9780393323566 111 21 4.08 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174500059m/407942.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/407942.I_the_Divine_A_Novel_in_First_Chapters 5 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 18 10:17:38 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 10:18:24 -0800 2009 407942 0393323560 9780393323566 111 21 4.08 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174500059m/407942.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/407942.I_the_Divine_A_Novel_in_First_Chapters 5 0 false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 11 12:01:08 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 12:02:41 -0700 2009 407942 0393323560 9780393323566 111 21 4.08 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174500059m/407942.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/407942.I_the_Divine_A_Novel_in_First_Chapters 3 0 false Mon May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 24 08:51:25 -0700 2008 Tue May 05 13:31:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 407942 0393323560 9780393323566 111 21 4.08 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174500059m/407942.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/407942.I_the_Divine_A_Novel_in_First_Chapters 4 0 false Sun Jan 20 09:50:51 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 20 09:50:51 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1598083 0297607944 9780297607946 9 2 4.08 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185673943m/1598083.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1598083.I_the_Divine 5 0 false Fri Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 25 16:03:47 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 10:11:40 -0700 2008
Interesting premise - a memoir that purposely never gets past the first chapters, but the first attempts as a whole add up to a kaleidoscope look at this woman's life, her family's life. There are many layers to this story, just like in any family.

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