02259nam 2200361 450 991016488500332120230808195615.01-941411-32-0(CKB)3710000000875447(MiAaPQ)EBC4596610(EXLCZ)99371000000087544720161004h20162016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierHim, me, Muhammad Ali /Randa JarrarLouisville, Kentucky :Sarabande Books,2016.©20161 online resource (217 pages) illustrations, photographs1-941411-31-2 "In her first story collection, Jarrar employs a particular, rather than rhetorical approach to race and gender. Thus we have "How Can I Be of Use to You," with its complicated relationship between a distinguished Egyptian feminist and her young intern, demonstrating that gender politics are never straightforward, and both generations-old and new-take advantage of each other. There's also a healthy dose of magic surrealism, as in the wild and witty story "Zelda the Halfie" which follows a breed of half Ibexes/half humans and their various tribulations. The writing is peppered with gorgeous imagery: a moon reflected in an ice cream scoop, breath that runs ahead of its body, and two apartments in a high rise whose tenants precisely mirror each other. Randa Jarrar is the author of a highly successful novel, A Map of Home, which received an Arab-American Book Award and was named one of the best novels of 2008 by the Barnes & Noble Review. She grew up in Kuwait and Egypt, and moved to the United States after the first Gulf War. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Utne Reader, Salon.com, Guernica, the Rumpus, the Oxford American, Ploughshares, and more. She blogs for Salon, and lives in California"--Provided by publisher.796.83092FIC029000FAM014000SOC048000SOC011000bisacshJarrar Randa1168717MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910164885003321Him, me, Muhammad Ali2892696UNINA