The Girl who Fell to Earth : : a Memoir
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An award-winning young filmmaker and writer's funny and wry coming-of-age memoir about growing up in between the American and Arab cultures.
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Muslim-American Memoir
submitted by sdunav on June 17, 2013, 3:02pm
This is a lovely memoir about the coming of age of the daughter of an improbable couple - a temporarily hippie-like teenaged girl from Puyallup, WA, and a confused Bedouin boy who never makes it to Seattle for a scholarship.
Sophia (or Safya, as she's called in Qatar) spends much of her teen years in Qatar and Egypt, and the conflicts between her American half and her family's style of Muslim culture is mind-boggling. There are also some great insights into the current generation and changing cultures. It's not as funny as Randa Jarrar's "A Map of Home", but it's just as interesting.
PUBLISHED
New York : Harper Perennial, c2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 271 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780061999758
006199975X
SUBJECTS
Al-Maria, Sophia -- Childhood and youth.
Al-Maria, Sophia -- Family.
Motion picture producers and directors -- Qatar -- Biography.
Arab Americans -- Biography.
Coming of age.
Culture conflict.
Arab countries -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.