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A Map of Home

Randa Jarrar

Nidali, the rebellious daughter of an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father, narrates her story from her childhood in Kuwait, her early teenage years in Egypt (to where she and her family fled the 1990 Iraqi invasion), to her family's last flight to Texas.

GenresArab American womenFictionImmigrantsDomestic fictionBildungsromans

292 pages

English edition · First published 2008 by Other Press · ISBN 9781590512722

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