· With her evocative prose and accomplished style, Diana Abu-Jaber’s Birds of Paradise explores with wisdom and insight the emotional fallout of a shattering family crisis. Yet in this profoundly moving novel, she also manages to unearth the inherent, cathartic beauty of family and individual survival in this complex and perilous new century.”Brand: Norton, W. W. Company, Inc. With her evocative prose and accomplished style, Diana Abu-Jaber's Birds of Paradise explores with wisdom and insight the emotional fallout of a shattering family crisis. Yet in this profoundly moving novel, she also manages to unearth the inherent, cathartic beauty of family and individual survival in this complex and perilous new century/5(72). Diana Abu-Jaber is the author of several novels, including Arabian Jazz, Crescent, and Birds of Paradise. Crescent was awarded the PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction and the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award and was named one of the twenty best novels of by The Christian Science Monitor.
I'm a huge fan of Diana Abu-Jaber's work and was thrilled to learn that she's been dividing her time between Portland and Miami! Her latest book, Birds of Paradise, is her first book set in www.doorway.ru was actually published this time last year but baby Q was just born then (more on him later) and he's only recently allowed me to have a few indulgences, like reading again. Birds of Paradise: A Novel - Kindle edition by Abu-Jaber, Diana. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Birds of Paradise: A Novel. Diana Abu-Jaber is the author of several novels, including Arabian Jazz, Crescent, and Birds of www.doorway.runt was awarded the PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction and the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award and was named one of the twenty best novels of by The Christian Science www.doorway.run Jazz won the Oregon Book Award and was nominated for the PEN.
Synopsis. "A full-course meal, a rich, complex and memorable story that will leave you lingering gratefully at [Abu-Jaber's] table." At thirteen, Felice Muir ran away from home to punish herself for some horrible thing she had done—leaving a hole in the hearts of her pastry-chef mother, her real estate attorney father, and her foodie-entrepreneurial brother. Diana Abu-Jaber is the author of several novels, including Arabian Jazz, Crescent, and Birds of Paradise. Crescent was awarded the PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction and the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award and was named one of the twenty best novels of by The Christian Science Monitor. Abu-Jaber (Origin, , etc.) uses a plot staple of standard-issue domestic melodrama—a family dealing with a runaway daughter—to develop a meticulous, deeply moving portrayal of imperfect human beings struggling to do right.
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