Arab American Heritage Month Fiction
Check out these recent novels by Arab American authors in celebration of Arab American Heritage Month! Annotations by NoveList, unless otherwise attributed.
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Between Two Moons
A young Muslim woman comes of age in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, during a period of heightened anti-Arab prejudice in Gawad’s astonishing debut. (Publishers Weekly)
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The Stardust Thief
After saving the life of a cowardly prince, a hunter and seller of illegal magic is blackmailed into finding an ancient lamp. As Loulie al-Nazari is drawn into a world where nothing is what it seems, she must decide who she will become in this new reality.
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Fencing With the King
Amani discovers a poem on an airmail paper that slipped out of one of her father's books, and becomes determined to learn more about its author, her grandmother, who arrived in Jordan during World War I.
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The Wrong End of the Telescope
A Lebanese-born American surgeon reflects on her volunteer stint at a Greek refugee camp and her "cataclysmic family expulsion" for being trans. (Kirkus)
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An Unlasting Home
A multigenerational saga spanning Lebanon, Iraq, India, the United States, and Kuwait brings to life the triumphs and failures of three generations of Arab women.
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The Arsonists' City
The scattered members of a Middle Eastern clan unite at an ancestral home in Beirut to change a new patriarch's decision to sell the property, igniting revelations about their family's past in Lebanon, Syria and the United States.
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You Exist Too Much
Told in vignettes across American and Middle Eastern settings, this debut novel follows the experiences of a young Palestinian American marginalized for her sexual orientation as she is driven toward self-destructive impulses by past trauma.
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The Skin and Its Girl
Faced with a difficult decision, Betty, a young, queer Palestinian American woman finds answers in partially translated notebooks that reveal her late Aunt Nuha's complex life and struggle with her own sexuality, which she hid from the family.
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What Strange Paradise
Looking at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child, this dramatic story follows Vanna who comes to the rescue of a 9-year-old Syrian boy who has washed up on the shores of her small island and is determined to do whatever it takes to save him.
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What Will People Think?
This beautifully written debut tackles serious issues like immigration, bigotry, and cultural identity, using stand-up comedy as a framing device. (Library Journal)
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