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I Alicia Erians novellsamling Kärlekens brutala språk möter vi ett antal flickor och unga kvinnor på förvirrad jakt efter kärlek och tillhörighet. Gång på gång frontalkrockar oskuld med krass verklighet - och romantiska kärleksdrömmar utmynnar i a...

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It is August 1990. Saddam Hussein has just invaded Kuwait, and Jasira's mother has bought her daughter a one-way ticket to Texas to live with her strict Lebanese father. Living in a neat model home in Charming Gates, just outside of Houston, Jasir...

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The story of a girl failed by her parents and by a conflicted America, Towelhead is an ultimately redemptive and moving work that no one can afford to ignore.The year is 1991. When Jasira's mother finds out what has been going on between her boyfr...

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A dark, deliciously grown-up take on Judy Blume - the story of a young girl's challenging coming-of-age that is funnier than it ought to be. Jasira, a teenaged Arab-American girl, is sent away by her mother to live with her father, after the mothe...

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In these nine stunning stories, Erian explores that peculiar part of the psyche that makes people do things when they know better. The powerful, unsettling stories in "The Brutal Language of Love" mark the emergence of a major new talent.

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Alicia Erian's characters are brave, disarming, affectionate, and deeply flawed. They inhabit the not-so-very-wide space between a good intention and a bad outcome. In "e;Alcatraz,"e; we meet a middle-school spelling champion who spends he...

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Alicia Erian's deliciously grown-up debut may not be a book for nice girls, but it has a lot to teach us about the unruly nature of desire. A college-bound student plots to lose her virginity to a pizza waiter, a spelling champion spends her after...

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Funny, disturbing, completely compelling, TOWELHEAD was picked as a New York Times Notable Book of 2005. Jasira, a teenaged Arab-American girl, is sent away by her mother to live with her father, after the mother's boyfriend begins paying her too ...

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I Alicia Erians novellsamling Kärlekens brutala språk möter vi ett antal flickor och unga kvinnor på förvirrad jakt efter kärlek och tillhörighet. Gång på gång frontalkrockar oskuld med krass verklighet - och romantiska kärleksdrömmar utmynnar i a...

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Alicia Erians Towelhead är en högaktuell bok om trettonåriga Jasiras sexuella uppvaknande i det tidiga nittiotalets USA. Medan landet förbereder sitt första krig mot Saddam, Gulfkriget, blir Jasiras mamma svartsjuk på det intresse som pojkvännen v...

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I de nio novellerna i Alicia Erians Kärlekens brutala språk möter vi ett antal kvinnor, samtliga på drift i gråzonen mellan hur man borde uppföra sig och vad man i själva verket gör. Som i 'Alcatraz' där hon berättar om den överviktiga och lillgam...

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