Laila Halaby
Autore di West of the Jordan: A Novel (Bluestreak)
Opere di Laila Halaby
Opere correlate
Dinarzad's Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction (2004) — Collaboratore — 26 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1966
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
Lebanon (birth) - Luogo di nascita
- Lebanon
- Luogo di residenza
- Tucson, Arizona, USA
- Istruzione
- University of California, Los Angeles (MA - Near Eastern Languages and Culture)
Loyola Marymount University (MA - Counseling)
Washington University in St. Louis (BA) - Attività lavorative
- novelist
poet
counselor - Organizzazioni
- University of Arizona
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 4
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 147
- Popolarità
- #140,982
- Voto
- 3.3
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 11
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My Review: I need to listen to myself. I don't like poetry, the feeling I always have of being talked at by the poet not to by the writer; and this is, make no mistake, poetry with prose's line breaks added. I relate to the lady's grief at the loss of her child and the many issues surrounding being Other in the increasingly hostile US. If you like poetry, give it a whirl, but for me it felt like many more than its two-hundred-ish pages of being told I'm defective for not "getting" the ever-so-pretty (I suppose) phrases.… (altro)