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| 020 | _a9781529020403 | ||
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_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra |
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| 041 | _aEnglish | ||
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| 100 | _aMurphy, Tim | ||
| 245 | _aCORRESPONDENTS | ||
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_aLondon _bPicador _c2019/01/01 |
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| 500 | _aThe world is Rita Khoury's oyster. The bright and driven daughter of a Boston-area Irish Arab family that has risen over the generations from poor immigrants to part of the coastal elite, Rita grows up in a 1980s cultural mishmash. Corned beef and cabbage sit on the dinner table alongside stuffed grape leaves and tabouleh, all cooked by Rita's mother, an Irish nurse who met her Lebanese surgeon husband while working at a hospital together. The unconventional yet close-knit family bonds over summers at the beach, wedding line dances, and a shared obsession with the Red Sox. Rita charts herself an ambitious path through Harvard to one of the best newspapers in the country. She is posted in cosmopolitan Beirut and dates a handsome Palestinian | ||
| 650 | _aFiction | ||
| 942 | _cLEN | ||
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