Alligator & other stories /
Alzayat, Dima,
Alligator & other stories / Alligator and other stories Dima Alzayat. - 206 pages ; 19 cm
Ghusl -- Daughters of Manät -- Disappearance -- Only those who struggle succeed -- In the land of Kan'an -- Alligator -- Summer of the shark -- Once we were syrians -- A girl in three acts.
"The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat's collection are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman performing burial rites for her brother in "Ghusl," or a great-aunt struggling to explain cultural identity to her niece in "Once We Were Syrians."Alzayat's stories are rich and relatable, chronicling a sense of displacement through everyday scenarios. There is the intern in pre-#MeToo Hollywood of "Only Those Who Struggle Succeed," the New York City children on the lookout for a place to play on the heels of Etan Patz's kidnapping in "Disappearance," and the "dangerous" women of "Daughters of Manāt" who struggle to assert their independence."--Provided by publisher.
9781937512897 1937512894
Refugees--Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Grief--Fiction.
United States--Race relations--Fiction.
Short stories.
Alligator & other stories / Alligator and other stories Dima Alzayat. - 206 pages ; 19 cm
Ghusl -- Daughters of Manät -- Disappearance -- Only those who struggle succeed -- In the land of Kan'an -- Alligator -- Summer of the shark -- Once we were syrians -- A girl in three acts.
"The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat's collection are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman performing burial rites for her brother in "Ghusl," or a great-aunt struggling to explain cultural identity to her niece in "Once We Were Syrians."Alzayat's stories are rich and relatable, chronicling a sense of displacement through everyday scenarios. There is the intern in pre-#MeToo Hollywood of "Only Those Who Struggle Succeed," the New York City children on the lookout for a place to play on the heels of Etan Patz's kidnapping in "Disappearance," and the "dangerous" women of "Daughters of Manāt" who struggle to assert their independence."--Provided by publisher.
9781937512897 1937512894
Refugees--Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Grief--Fiction.
United States--Race relations--Fiction.
Short stories.