Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Pegasus BooksISBN-13:9798897100286UPC:9798897100286Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Jewish, Arab & Middle EasternSize:9.14 x 6.23 x 2.21 inchesWeight:2.1517Product ID:SCMEVKBZ92
Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture
A life-affirming memoir about resilience, language, and the healing power of our ancestor's music, stories, and recipes. Samantha's mother tongue is dying out. The daughter of Iraqi Jewish refugees, Samantha grew up surrounded by the noisy, vivid, hot sounds of Judeo-Iraqi Arabic. A language that's now on the verge of extinction. The realization that she won't be able to tell her son he's...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Pegasus BooksISBN-13:9798897100286UPC:9798897100286Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Jewish, Arab & Middle EasternSize:9.14 x 6.23 x 2.21 inchesWeight:2.1517Product ID:SCMEVKBZ92
The daughter of Iraqi-Jewish refugees, Samantha Ellis is the author of How to be a Heroine and Take Courage. Her plays include How to Date a Feminist, Cling to me Like Ivy and Operation Magic Carpet. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian, theTLS, the Spectator, Literary Review and more. She worked on the first two Paddington films. She lives in London, where Always Carry Salt was...
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