LEADER 02259nam 2200361 450 001 9910164885003321 005 20230808195615.0 010 $a1-941411-32-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000875447 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4596610 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000875447 100 $a20161004h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aHim, me, Muhammad Ali /$fRanda Jarrar 210 1$aLouisville, Kentucky :$cSarabande Books,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (217 pages) $cillustrations, photographs 311 $a1-941411-31-2 330 $a"In her first story collection, Jarrar employs a particular, rather than rhetorical approach to race and gender. Thus we have "How Can I Be of Use to You," with its complicated relationship between a distinguished Egyptian feminist and her young intern, demonstrating that gender politics are never straightforward, and both generations-old and new-take advantage of each other. There's also a healthy dose of magic surrealism, as in the wild and witty story "Zelda the Halfie" which follows a breed of half Ibexes/half humans and their various tribulations. The writing is peppered with gorgeous imagery: a moon reflected in an ice cream scoop, breath that runs ahead of its body, and two apartments in a high rise whose tenants precisely mirror each other. Randa Jarrar is the author of a highly successful novel, A Map of Home, which received an Arab-American Book Award and was named one of the best novels of 2008 by the Barnes & Noble Review. She grew up in Kuwait and Egypt, and moved to the United States after the first Gulf War. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Utne Reader, Salon.com, Guernica, the Rumpus, the Oxford American, Ploughshares, and more. She blogs for Salon, and lives in California"--$cProvided by publisher. 676 $a796.83092 686 $aFIC029000$aFAM014000$aSOC048000$aSOC011000$2bisacsh 700 $aJarrar$b Randa$01168717 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910164885003321 996 $aHim, me, Muhammad Ali$92892696 997 $aUNINA