Yasmeen Haddad loves Joanasi Maqaittik : a novel / Carolyn Marie Souaid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Souaid, Carolyn Marie, 1959- author.

Contributor:

Tom Farinholt and Blair Edlow Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interethnic dating.

Inuit.

Syrians.

Nord-du-Québec (Québec)--Fiction.

Nord-du-Québec (Québec).

Québec.

Québec--Nord-du-Québec.

Syrians--Québec (Province)--Fiction.

Women teachers--Fiction.

Women teachers.

Inuit--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

Interethnic dating--Fiction.

Villages--Fiction.

Villages.

Genre:

Romance fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

297 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Montréal : Baraka Books, [2017]

Summary:

"A 23-year-old woman enters a whole new world of attraction in a community struggling with generations of loss of land and culture. Yasmeen's tradition-bound mother wants her to stay in Montreal, get married, and have babies. But the young Syrian-Canadian wants more. Her appetite for adventure leads her to a teaching job in the northern Quebec village of Saqijuvik. Eager to adopt her new home and its Inuit inhabitants, Yasmeen embraces every experience that comes her way: camping on the tundra, hunting for ptarmigan, sewing with the local ladies. She plunges into her northern adventure, no holds barred. But it's 1983 and instead of the ideal, pristine Arctic Yasmeen imagined, she uncovers a contradictory world of igloos and pool halls, Sedna and Jesus, raw caribou and alcohol. In the middle of everything is Joanasi, a beautiful but volatile man who leads her into territory that is almost as unsettling as the land itself." --Publisher description.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Tom Farinholt and Blair Edlow Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781771861243

177186124X

9781771861267

1771861266

OCLC:

982652629