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Towelhead : a novel

Sent to live with her strict Lebanese father in Texas upon the outbreak of the Gulf War, Arab-American teen Jasira endures racial taunts from her new classmates and enters into a dangerously exploitative relationship with a bigoted Army reservist.

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  • "Towelhead"
  • "Towelhead"@it
  • "Towel head"
  • "Towel head"@en

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  • "Sent to live with her strict Lebanese father in Texas upon the outbreak of the Gulf War, Arab-American teen Jasira endures racial taunts from her new classmates and enters into a dangerously exploitative relationship with a bigoted Army reservist."@en
  • "Sent to live with her strict Lebanese father in Texas upon the outbreak of the Gulf War, Arab-American teen Jasira endures racial taunts from her new classmates and enters into a dangerously exploitative relationship with a bigoted Army reservist."
  • "The year is 1991. When Jasira's mother finds out what has been going on between her boyfriend and her thirteen-year-old daughter, she has to make a choice -- and chooses to send Jasira off to Houston Texas, to live with her father. A remote disciplinarian prone to explosive rages, Jasira's father is unable to show his daughter the love she craves -- and far less able to handle her feelings about her changing body. Bewildered by extremes of parental scrutiny and neglect, Jasira begins to look elsewhere for affection. Saddam Hussein has invaded Kuwait, and high school has become a lonely place for a "towelhead." When her father meets, and forbids her to see, her boyfriend, it becomes lonelier still. But there is always Mr. Vuoso -- a neighboring army reservist whose son Jasira babysits. Mr. Vuoso, as Jasira discovers, has an extensive collection of "Playboy" magazines. And he doesn't seem to think there's anything wrong with Jasira's body at all. Painfully funny, tender, and sexually charged, "Towelhead" is that rare thing: a gloriously readable novel unafraid to take risks. The story of a girl failed by her parents and by a conflicted America, "Towelhead" is an ultimately redemptive and moving work that none of us can afford to ignore."
  • "Houston, Texas, 1991. Alors qu'éclate la première guerre du Golfe, Jasira, 13 ans, entame sa traversée de l'adolescence. Traitée comme un objet par son père, qui édicte des interdictions, par son ami Thomas, un jeune Noir manipulateur, et par son voisin Vuoso, qui abuse d'elle, elle trouve refuge auprès de Mélina, une voisine qui la prend sous son aile. Premier roman."
  • "Wanneer de 13-jarige dochter van gescheiden ouders bij haar Libanese vader in Houston gaat wonen, wordt ze ondanks zijn scherpe controle toch slachtoffer van seksuele intimidatie en misbruik."
  • "The year is 1991. When Jasira's mother finds out what has been going on between her boyfriend and her thirteen-year-old daughter, she has to make a choice -- and chooses to send Jasira off to Houston, Texas, to live with her father. A remote disciplinarian prone to explosive rages, Jasira's father is unable to show his daughter the love she craves -- and far less able to handle her feelings about her changing body. Bewildered by extremes of parental scrutiny and neglect, Jasira begins to look elsewhere for affection. Saddam Hussein has invaded Kuwait, and high school has become a lonely place for a "towelhead." When her father meets, and forbids her to see, her boyfriend, it becomes lonelier still. But there is always Mr. Vuoso -- a neighboring army reservist whose son Jasira babysits. Mr. Vuoso, as Jasira discovers, has an extensive collection of Playboy magazines. And he doesn't seem to think there's anything wrong with Jasira's body at all. Painfully funny, tender, and sexually charged, Towelhead is that rare thing: a gloriously readable novel unafraid to take risks. The story of a girl failed by her parents and by a conflicted America, Towelhead is an ultimately redemptive and moving work that none of us can afford to ignore."@en

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "General fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "La petite arabe"
  • "Towelhead : a novel"@en
  • "Towelhead A Novel"@en
  • "Towelhead : a novel"
  • "Towelhead"@en
  • "Towelhead"
  • "Towelhead"@sv
  • "Towelhead a novel"@en
  • "Niets blijft onder ons"
  • "La petite Arabe : roman"
  • "毛巾頭"
  • "Kak na ladoni"
  • "Beduina"
  • "Beduina"@it
  • "Mao jin tou = Towelhead"
  • "毛巾头 = Towelhead"
  • "Unverblümt Roman"
  • "Как на ладони"
  • "Mao jin tou"
  • "Abrázame"@es
  • "Abrázame"

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