Sent to live with her strict Lebanese father in Texas upon the outbreak of the Gulf War, Arab-American teen Jasira endures racial taunts from her new classmates and enters into a dangerously exploitative relationship with a bigoted Army reservist.
Genres
- Lebanese Americans
- Teenage girls
- Arab Americans
- Children of immigrants
- Fiction
- Fathers and daughters
- Children of divorced parents
- Conflict of generations
- Suburban life
- Adolescentes
- Roman
- Pères et filles
- Fathers and daughters, fiction
- Fiction, sagas
- United states, social life and customs, fiction
- Fiction, coming of age
- Fiction, family life, general
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