![]() ![]() ![]() The way it's presented is almost like its just one of those humorous things that eccentric fathers do & mothers ignore. At one point in the story, she writes that her younger brother Gamal was getting beaten every day and they looked & compared their bruises. For example the fact Nidali's father beats her regularly is treated very lightly. Her father is an interesting mixture because he has huge ambitions for Nidali not wanting her to be just someone's wife & wanting her to go to college, but he's also very old fashioned & spends a lot of time trying to stop her from being a 'whore.' Some of this was funny & some felt a little forced. more ssion & practicality while her mother is artistic and loves to play the piano. Her father is a poet at heart but an architect by profe. Nidali's parents are very colorful characters who engage in frequent bickering laced with a lot of affection. But this is fiction.It's a quick easy book to read peppered with lots of humorous anecdotes. It feels a little like a memoir as well as the author shares a similar background. But for all the exoticness of the main character this story is your basic coming of age story. She's an entire melting pot all by herself. She's born in Boston but then grows up in Kuwait moves to Egypt and eventually moves to Texas. Nidali has a mother who's Greek & Egyptian and a Palestinian father. Review 1: It's not often (never) that I've read a lighthearted book that takes place in the Middle East so this was a nice change of pace. ![]()
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