Crescent

Description

"Thirty-nine-year-old Sirine, never married, lives with a devoted uncle and an adoring dog named King Babar in the Persian- and Arab-American community of Los Angeles known as Irangeles. She works as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, her passions aroused only by cooking - until an unbearably handsome Arabic literature professor starts dropping by for a little home cooking. Falling in love with Hanif brings Sirine's whole heart to a boil - stirring up memories of her parents and questions about her own identity as an Arab American.". "Meanwhile, a host of magnificent characters do their best to interfere with her life: her endlessly patient and thoroughly appealing uncle, who spins a magical story about an Arab slave who escapes his masters by pretending to drown (and ends up in Hollywood); her unrequited admirer, Nathan, an art photographer with disturbing obsessions and a dark past; and Umm Nadia, her saucy, matchmaking boss, who tells Sirine's fortune in the coffee grounds at the bottom of her cup."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

The sky is white.

Description

Never married, living with an Iraqi-immigrant uncle and devoted dog, and working as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, thirty-nine-year-old Sirine finds her life turned upside down by a handsome Arabic literature professor.

Subjects

Genres

• Fiction

Other Editions

• CrescentW.W. Norton2004-01-01
• CrescentW.W. Norton & Co.2002-01-01
• CrescentW.W. Norton2003-01-01
• CrescentW.W. Norton & Co.2003-01-01
• CrescentW. W. Norton & Company2003-04-01
• CrescentNorton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.2004-01-01