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001			on1056195103
003			OCoLC
005			20190522132829.0
008			181221t20192019nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2018058108
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCO _dOCLCQ _dORX _dOCLCF _dIH9 _dUAP _dNFG
020			_a9780802129376 _q(hardcover)
020			_a0802129374 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1056195103
042			_apcc
092			_aMurphy, _bTimothy
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aMurphy, Timothy, _d1969- _eauthor. _9400541
245	1	0	_aCorrespondents : _ba novel / _cTim Murphy.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a1905
264		1	_aNew York, New York : _bGrove Press, _c[2019]
264		4	_c©2019
300			_a440 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_aSpanning the breadth of the twentieth century and into the post-9/11 wars and their legacy, Correspondents is a powerful novel that centers on Rita Khoury, an Irish-Lebanese woman whose life and family history mirrors the story of America. Both sides of Rita's family came to the United States in the golden years of immigration, which we see beautifully rendered in the first part of the novel, and in her home north of Boston Rita grows into a stubborn, perfectionist, and relentlessly bright young woman. She studies Arabic at university and moves to cosmopolitan Beirut to work as a journalist, and is then posted to Iraq after the American invasion in 2003. In Baghdad, she finds for the first time in her life that her safety depends on someone else, her talented interpreter Nabil al-Jumaili, an equally driven young man from a middle-class Baghdad family who is hiding a secret about his sexuality. As Nabil's identity threatens to put him in jeopardy and Rita's position becomes more precarious as the war intensifies, their worlds start to unravel, forcing them out of the country and into an uncertain future. Epic in scope, by turns funny and poignant, and moving from New England to the Middle East, Correspondents is a powerful story about the legacy of immigration, the present-day world of refugeehood, the violence that America causes both abroad and at home, and the power of the individual and the family to bring good into a world that is often brutal.
650		0	_aJournalists _vFiction. _949520
650		0	_aEmigration and immigration _vFiction. _943635
994			_aC0 _bNFG
999			_c292312 _d292312