A map of home

Randa Jarrar First published 2008

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • arab american women
  • fiction
  • fiction, coming of age
  • fiction, family life
  • general
  • immigrants