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The wrong end of the telescope
Audience Adults
Published 2022 by Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, New York, NY
ISBN 9780802157812
Bib Id 1182664
Copyright 2021
Edition First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
Description 366 pages ; 21 cm
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9780802157812 (paperback) $17.00
0802157815
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FIC Alameddine
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Title
The wrong end of the telescope
Edition
First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
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2022 by Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, New York, NY :
Copyright Date
©2021
Description
366 pages ; 21 cm
Summary
"Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp's children. Soon, a boat crosses bringing Sumaiya, a fiercely resolute Syrian matriarch with terminal liver cancer. Determined to protect her children and husband at all costs, Sumaiya refuses to alert her family to her diagnosis. Bonded together by Sumaiya's secret, a deep connection sparks between the two women, and as Mina prepares a course of treatment with the limited resources on hand, she confronts the circumstances of the migrants' displacement, as well as her own constraints in helping them."--
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Bildungsromans.
Transgender fiction.
Novels
Transgender fiction.
Novels
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