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The Brutal Language of Love

Stories

By: Alicia Erian

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Alicia Erian's characters are brave, disarming, affectionate, and deeply flawed. They inhabit the not-so-very-wide space between a good intention and a bad outcome. In "Alcatraz," we meet a middle-school spelling champion who spends her afternoons taking baths with the boy next door. In "Almonds and Cherries," a young woman turns an unexpectedly arousing bra-shopping experience into a short film, with ramifications for everyone around her. In "On the Occasion of My Ruination," a college-bound student plots to lose her virginity to a pizza parlor waiter. The Brutal Language of Love challenges traditional notions of right and wrong with what has become Erian's signature -- an achingly stylish humor and a deep understanding of the brutal truth about human nature. These surprising, provocative, and deeply resonant stories marked the emergence of a major talent

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Simon and Schuster

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1416597131

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Towelhead

A Novel

By: Alicia Erian

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Towelhead

A Novel

By: Alicia Erian

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. Reissue. 75,000 first printing. (A Warner Independent film, directed by Alan Ball, releasing August 2008, starring Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, & Maria Bello) (General Fiction)

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1416589309

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9781416589303

Towelhead

By: Alicia Erian

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Towelhead

By: Alicia Erian

Alicia Erians Towelhead är en högaktuell bok om trettonåriga Jasiras sexuella uppvaknande i det tidiga nittiotalets USA. Medan landet förbereder sitt första krig mot Saddam, Gulfkriget, blir Jasiras mamma svartsjuk på det intresse som pojkvännen visar dottern och hon skickas till sin libanesiske pappa i Texas. Jasira vantrivs med pappans strikta och motsägelsefulla regler och oförmögen att handskas med sin ensamhet och kropp söker hon uppmärksamhet på alla ställen hon kan, något den medelålders grannen Mr Vuoso uttnyttjar. Alicia Erian bor i Brooklyn, New York, och skriver i Zoetrope och Nerve.Towelhead är hennes första roman. Hennes debutbok, novellsamlingen Kärlekens brutala språk, utkom på Modernista 2004. Pressröster: »Jag blir inte deprimerad, bara mer och mer fascinerad av det alltmer obehagliga, mästerligt iscensatta kammarspelet. Utan att bli spekulativ, lolitisk, lyckas Erian, rentav med skönhet, gestalta Jasiras hemliga guldåder, trots övergreppen« Örjan Abrahamsson, VI »Det är äckligt, snuskigt, politiskt inkorrekt och inkonsekvent. Allt som händer i mellanrummen är liksom poängen. Jag fattar inte hur Erian gör det, men det är bra.« Rebecka Åhlund, Borås Tidning

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9176453707

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