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Through and Through: Toledo Stories, Second Edition (Arab American Writing)
Joseph Geha
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Description for Through and Through: Toledo Stories, Second Edition (Arab American Writing)
Paperback. A collection of broadly interrelated stories that offer a warm, inspired portrait of an extended Arab family in a Lebanese and Syrian community in Toledo, Ohio, spanning the decades between the 1930s and the present. It offers a passionate, unvarnished glimpse into the lives of an immigrant community. Series: Arab American Writing. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 240.
Treasured in the Arab-American literary community, Through and Through is a collection of broadly interrelated stories, eight originally published in 1990 with three new stories added in the second edition. One of the first books of modern Arab-American fiction, Joseph Geha's stories offer a warm, inspired portrait of an extended Arab family in a Lebanese and Syrian community in Toledo, Ohio, spanning the decades between the 1930s and the present. In a series of vignettes, Geha follows three generations of an Arab-American family as they create a new community and way of life, struggling to keep their Arab roots vital ... Read more
Treasured in the Arab-American literary community, Through and Through is a collection of broadly interrelated stories, eight originally published in 1990 with three new stories added in the second edition. One of the first books of modern Arab-American fiction, Joseph Geha's stories offer a warm, inspired portrait of an extended Arab family in a Lebanese and Syrian community in Toledo, Ohio, spanning the decades between the 1930s and the present. In a series of vignettes, Geha follows three generations of an Arab-American family as they create a new community and way of life, struggling to keep their Arab roots vital ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Arab American Writing
Number of Pages
165
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815632108
SKU
V9780815632108
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About Joseph Geha
Born in Lebanon, Joseph Geha grew up in a Lebanese-American community in Toledo, Ohio. His short stories, poems, essays, and plays have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies, including the New York Times, Northwest Review, Epoch, Iowa Review, Dinazard's Children, and Post Gibran. He has received a Pushcart Prize and a National Endowment for the Arts Award. Geha is professor ... Read more
Reviews for Through and Through: Toledo Stories, Second Edition (Arab American Writing)
Opens an intriguing window onto the Lebanese - and Syrian - Christian emigre communities of Toledo and Detroit." — Publisher's Weekly "These stories have a lot to say about the life of Arab Americans and the cultural conflicts of the immigrant. But the humanistic side of the Toledo neighborhood Geha explores teaches us important lessons about the nature of ... Read more