Crescent / Diana Abu-Jaber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abu-Jaber, Diana.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arab American women--California--Los Angeles--Fiction.

Arab American women.

Cooking, Lebanese--Fiction.

Cooking, Lebanese.

College teachers--California--Los Angeles--Fiction.

College teachers.

Arab Americans--California--Los Angeles--Fiction.

Arab Americans.

Women cooks--California--Los Angeles--Fiction.

Women cooks.

Arab American women--Fiction.

College teachers--Fiction.

Restaurants.

California--Los Angeles.

Restaurants--California--Los Angeles--Fiction.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

Local Subjects:

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Love stories.

Romance fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

398 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, 2004.

Summary:

Never married, living with an Iraqi-immigrant uncle and devoted dog, and working as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, thirty-nine-year-old Sirine finds her life turned upside down by a handsome Arabic literature professor.

Sirine, the heroine of this deliciously romantic romp is thirty-nine, never married, and living in the Arab-American community of Los Angeles. She has a passion for cooking and works contentedly in a Lebanese restaurant, while her storytelling uncle and her saucy boss, Umm Nadia, believe she should be trying harder to find a husband. One day Hanif, a handsome professor of Arabic literature, an Iraqi exile, comes to the restaurant. Sirine falls in love and finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew about Hanif, as well as her own torn identity as an Arab-American. -- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"First published as a Norton paperback 2004"--Title page verso.

Includes a reading group guide.

American Book Awards, Winner, 2004

ISBN:

0393325547

9780393325546

OCLC:

55628454