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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Frances NobleSeries:Arab American WritingPublish date:3/10/2025Pages:198
Language:EnglishPublisher:Syracuse University PressISBN-13:9780815611820ISBN-10:081561182XUPC:9780815611820Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Family Life, Cultural HeritageBook Topic:MultigenerationalSize:7.00 x 5.00 x 0.45 inchesWeight:0.3902Product ID:SCM2DQ1T1N

The situe, or Arab grandmother, moves in and out of this collection of eleven short stories, forming an irresistible drama of an extended Arab family in twentieth-century America. Frances Khirallah Noble's deft and accomplished tales draw her experiences and the stories told by grandmothers, aunts, and other female relatives. Each story is complete in itself, but read together they fuse to form a powerful whole.

Khirallah Noble writes of immigrants torn between two cultures, the lure of capitalist success versus the cost of assimilation, marital and parental tensions, youth and age, innovation and tradition. Chronologically arranged and covering much of the twentieth century, the book begins with Hasna Elias's immigration to America from what is now Syria and Lebanon, and ends in the present, where the situe lives in a Southern California home for the elderly.

Containing elements of magic and stoicism, the stories present textured characters rich in independence, creativity, and initiative. As the stories move forward in time from the Old World to the new, Frances Khirallah Noble's style shifts subtly from folk tale to contemporary fiction. The Situe Stories gracefully captures the integration of Christian Arab women into American culture.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Syracuse University PressISBN-13:9780815611820ISBN-10:081561182XUPC:9780815611820Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Family Life, Cultural HeritageBook Topic:MultigenerationalSize:7.00 x 5.00 x 0.45 inchesWeight:0.3902Product ID:SCM2DQ1T1N
Frances Khirallah Noble lives in Palm Desert, California. She is the author of The New Belly Dancer of the Galaxy: A Novel, also published by Syracuse University Press.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press

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