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Jasmine and Fire: A Bittersweet Year in Beirut
Contributor(s): Abdelnour, Salma (Author)

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 ISBN: 0307885941     ISBN-13: 9780307885944
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
OUR PRICE: $19.00  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2012
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Travel | Essays & Travelogues
- Travel | Middle East - General
- Cooking | Essays & Narratives
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2011050266
Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.48" W x 7.99" L (0.56 lbs) 336 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Middle East
- Locality - New York, N.Y.
- Geographic Orientation - New York
- Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region - Northeast U.S.
Features: Deckle Edges, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2012
Publishers Weekly 04/23/2012 pg. 43
Booklist 05/15/2012 pg. 14
 
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Publisher Description:
As Beirut exploded with the bombs and violence of a ruthless civil war in the '80s, a nine-year-old Salma Abdelnour and her family fled Lebanon to start a new life in the States. Ever since then--even as she built a thriving career as a food and travel writer in New York City--Salma has had a hunch that Beirut was still her home. She kept dreaming of moving back--and finally decided to do it.

But could she resume her life in Beirut, so many years after her family moved away? Could she, or anyone for that matter, ever really go home again?

Jasmine and Fire is Salma's poignant and humorous journey of trying to resettle in Beirut and fumbling through the new realities of life in one of the world's most complex, legendary, ever-vibrant, ever-troubled cities. What's more, in a year of roiling changes around the Middle East and the rise of the Arab Spring, Salma found herself in the midst of the turmoil.

As she comes to grips with all the changes in her life--a love left behind in New York and new relationships blossoming in Beirut--Salma takes comfort in some of Lebanon's enduring traditions, particularly its extraordinary food culture. Through the sights, sounds, and flavors of a city full of beauty, tragedy, despair, and hope, Salma slowly begins to reconnect with the place she's longed for her entire life.
 
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