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Towelhead: A Novel - Alicia Erian, 9780743285124, paperback

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
0743285123
ISBN-13
9780743285124
eBay Product ID (ePID)
48253551

Product Key Features

Book Title
Towelhead : a Novel
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Sagas, Family Life, General, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Author
Alicia Erian
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
12.6 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Alicia Erian is one of the finest young writers to come along in a decade -- fierce, smart, funny, and wise. And Towelhead is an extraordinary debut novel. It's sexy, disturbing, joyful and deep, and maybe just a little too real for comfort." -- Bill Roorbach, author of Big Bend and The Smallest Color, "Alicia Erian's gripping debut novel fearlessly enters love's gray areas and darkest corners. The character's voice casts a slow and subtle spell. Before you know it, you're convinced the bad guys are good guys and the heroes are villains. I couldn't put it down." -- Cathy Day, author of The Circus in Winter, "In Towelhead Alicia Erian accomplishes an extraordinarily difficult thing: She illuminates a timeless, ageless theme, our inevitable human struggle for selfhood and meaningful connection to others. This is a brilliant first novel." -- Robert Olen Butler, "Alicia Erian's unflinching depiction of a teen's survival is accurate and artful, and it offers a glimpse of true triumph. This marvelous book further confirms Erian as a writer to admire." -- Darin Strauss, author of Chang and Eng and The Real McCoy, "Alicia Erian is one of the finest young writers to come along in a decade -- fierce, smart, funny, and wise. AndTowelheadis an extraordinary debut novel. It's sexy, disturbing, joyful and deep, and maybe just a little too real for comfort."-- Bill Roorbach, author ofBig BendandThe Smallest Color, "Alicia Erian's gripping debut novel fearlessly enters love's gray areas and darkest corners. The character's voice casts a slow and subtle spell. Before you know it, you're convinced the bad guys are good guys and the heroes are villains. I couldn't put it down."-- Cathy Day, author of "The Circus in Winter", "Alicia Erian's unflinching depiction of a teen's survival is accurate and artful, and it offers a glimpse of true triumph. This marvelous book further confirms Erian as a writer to admire."-- Darin Strauss, author ofChang and EngandThe Real McCoy, "Alicia Erian's gripping debut novel fearlessly enters love's gray areas and darkest corners. The character's voice casts a slow and subtle spell. Before you know it, you're convinced the bad guys are good guys and the heroes are villains. I couldn't put it down."-- Cathy Day, author ofThe Circus in Winter, "Alicia Erian is one of the finest young writers to come along in a decade -- fierce, smart, funny, and wise. And "Towelhead" is an extraordinary debut novel. It's sexy, disturbing, joyful and deep, and maybe just a little too real for comfort."-- Bill Roorbach, author of "Big Bend" and "The Smallest Color", "Alicia Erian is one of the finest young writers to come along in a decade -- fierce, smart, funny, and wise. And Towelhead is an extraordinary debut novel. It's sexy, disturbing, joyful and deep, and maybe just a little too real for comfort."-- Bill Roorbach, author of Big Bend and The Smallest Color, "In Towelhead Alicia Erian accomplishes an extraordinarily difficult thing: She illuminates a timeless, ageless theme, our inevitable human struggle for selfhood and meaningful connection to others. This is a brilliant first novel."-- Robert Olen Butler, "Alicia Erian's unflinching depiction of a teen's survival is accurate and artful, and it offers a glimpse of true triumph. This marvelous book further confirms Erian as a writer to admire."-- Darin Strauss, author of "Chang and Eng" and "The Real McCoy", "Alicia Erian's gripping debut novel fearlessly enters love's gray areas and darkest corners. The character's voice casts a slow and subtle spell. Before you know it, you're convinced the bad guys are good guys and the heroes are villains. I couldn't put it down."-- Cathy Day, author of The Circus in Winter, "In "Towelhead" Alicia Erian accomplishes an extraordinarily difficult thing: She illuminates a timeless, ageless theme, our inevitable human struggle for selfhood and meaningful connection to others. This is a brilliant first novel."-- Robert Olen Butler, "Alicia Erian's unflinching depiction of a teen's survival is accurate and artful, and it offers a glimpse of true triumph. This marvelous book further confirms Erian as a writer to admire."-- Darin Strauss, author of Chang and Eng and The Real McCoy
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
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, Jasira struggles with her father's rigid lifestyle and the racism of her classmates, who call her "towelhead." For the first time, the painful truth hits her: she's an Arab. Her aching loneliness and growing frustration with her parents' conflicting rules drive her to rebel in very dangerous ways. Most disturbingly, she becomes sexually obsessed with the bigoted army reservist next door, who alternately cares for, excites, and exploits her., Erian's story of an impressionable yet resilient girl who must grow up against the backdrop of the Gulf War is mesmerizing--a coming-of-age tale that is at once brutally honest and unexpectedly hilarious., 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 boyfriend and her thirteen-year-old daughter, she has to make a choice--and chooses to send Jasira off to Houston, Texas, to live with her father. A remote disciplinarian prone to explosive rages, Jasira's father is unable to show his daughter the love she craves--and far less able to handle her feelings about her changing body. Bewildered by extremes of parental scrutiny and neglect, Jasira begins to look elsewhere for affection, but Saddam Hussein has invaded Kuwait, and high school has become a lonely place for a "towelhead." When her father meets, and forbids her to see, her boyfriend, it becomes lonelier still. But there is always Mr. Vuoso -- a neighboring army reservist whose son Jasira babysits. Mr. Vuoso, as Jasira discovers, has an extensive collection of Playboy magazines. And he doesn't seem to think there's anything wrong with Jasira's body at all. Painfully funny, tender, and sexually charged, Towelhead is that rare thing: a gloriously readable novel unafraid to take risks.

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