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Sto caricando le informazioni... Beduina (edizione 2005)di Alicia Erian, O (O)
Informazioni sull'operaBeduina di Alicia Erian
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I thought this book was written really well and I actually really enjoyed it, but it was hard to read at times. There was a lot of sad content that had me cringing. I kept forgetting it wasn't a memoir and I felt so bad for the author, but remembered it wasn't...thankfully for her! SPOILERS (kind of) I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who is sensitive to animals getting hurt (not abuse though) or sexual assault of a child or sexuality of a child. This story broke my heart. A young girl whose parents recently went through an ugly divorce, moves to Texas to live with her Lebanese-American dad. It is a story that is raw, intense, and extremely emotional. It makes you think deeply about children, especially tween and young teen girls, and their need for appropriate affection and understanding. Warning: contains graphic scenes. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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It is August 1990. Saddam Hussein has just invaded Kuwait, and Jasira's mother has bought her daughter a one-way ticket to Texas to live with her strict Lebanese father. Living in a neat model home in Charming Gates, just outside of Houston, Jasira struggles with her father's rigid lifestyle and the racism of her classmates, who call her "towelhead." For the first time, the painful truth hits her: she's an Arab. Her aching loneliness and growing frustration with her parents' conflicting rules drive her to rebel in very dangerous ways. Most disturbingly, she becomes sexually obsessed with the bigoted army reservist next door, who alternately cares for, excites, and exploits her. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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I picked up the book Towelhead: A novel because I was intrigued by the New York Times' review of the movie directed by Alan Ball (of Six Feet Under and American Beauty). I also picked it up, because I'm always interested in how authors' portray the burgeoning sexuality of preteen and teen girls especially now that teenagers seem more sexualized than ever. Towelhead did a good job of exploring 13-year-old Jasria's sexuality. The proof is by how uncomfortable I felt reading this book.
In order to truly understand Jasira's reasoning, one has to remember what it was like to be a teenager. As an adult, I can see the faulty decisions of my adolescence with 20/20 hindsight. Back then, the decisions seemed okay. Towelhead was so uncomfortable because so much of the confused sexual feelings and experimentation was familiar to me.
I couldn't stop reading this book, and completed it in just one day. I wanted to rush to the end to see if this girl would ever get her head on straight. (To say yea or nay would spoil the ending.) Although I could relate to Jasira's sexual naïveté, I did become disgusted by it. Even at 13-years-old, I knew the difference between a "good" touch and a "bad touch" even though I was taught, like Jasira, to be ashamed of even the good touches. But that was probably supposed to be a reflection on Jasira's parents’ lack of parenting.
*SIGH* With all that said, I can't say whether or not I liked the book. It was just too disturbing. Once I get over the shock of it, I'll come back and rate it.
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