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Diana Abu-Jaber
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Syracuse, NY, The United States
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The Language of Baklava: A Memoir
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2005
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Crescent
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2003
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17 editions
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Birds of Paradise
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2011
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Origin
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2007
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Arabian Jazz
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1993
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Life Without a Recipe
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2016
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The Language of Baklava
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Delivering a Public Speech: Learning the Process of Mass Addressing
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Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience
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2006
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Blue Christmas: Holiday Stories for the Rest of Us
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2011
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An MFA gives you guidance and credentials, but students sometimes forget-- a degree won't make you write. Which is the most important thing in the end and the best credential.
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“Marry, don't marry,' Auntie Aya says as we unfold layers of dough to make an apple strudel.
Just don't have your babies unless it's absolutely necessary.'
How do I know if it's necessary?'
She stops and stares ahead, her hands gloved in flour. 'Ask yourself, Do I want a baby or do I want to make a cake? The answer will come to you like bells ringing.' She flickers her fingers in the air by her ear. 'For me, almost always, the answer was cake.”
― The Language of Baklava: A Memoir
Just don't have your babies unless it's absolutely necessary.'
How do I know if it's necessary?'
She stops and stares ahead, her hands gloved in flour. 'Ask yourself, Do I want a baby or do I want to make a cake? The answer will come to you like bells ringing.' She flickers her fingers in the air by her ear. 'For me, almost always, the answer was cake.”
― The Language of Baklava: A Memoir
“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground”
― Crescent
― Crescent
“...tasting a piece of bread that someone bought is like looking at that person, but tasting a piece of bread that they baked is like looking out of their eyes.”
― Crescent
― Crescent
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“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― A Room of One's Own
― A Room of One's Own
