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Illuminating a new world of people in migration that has transformed the essence of America, these collected stories are a dazzling display of the vision of this critically-acclaimed contemporary writer.
An aristocratic Filipina negotiates a new life for herself with an Atlanta investment banker. A Vietnam vet returns to Florida, a place now more foreign than the Asia of his war experience. An Indian widow tries to explain her culture’s traditions of grieving to her well-intentioned friends. And in the title story, an Iraqi Jew whose travels have ended in Queens suddenly finds himself an unwitting guerrilla in a South American jungle.
Passionate, comic, violent, and tender, these stories draw us into a cultural fusion in the midst of its birth pangs, expressing a “consummated romance with the American language” (The New York Times Book Review).
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December 1, 2007 -
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- ISBN: 9780802196347
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- ISBN: 9780802196347
- File size: 2575 KB
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- English
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- Lexile® Measure: 750
- Text Difficulty: 3-4
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Languages
- English
Levels
- Lexile® Measure:750
- Text Difficulty:3-4
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