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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 324
Utgivningsdatum: 2012-10-01
Förlag: Guernica Editions,Canada
Dimensioner: 201 x 127 x 20 mm
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ISBN: 9781550716092

Sometimes it Snows in America

Name: Sometimes it Snows in America
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Author: Marisa Labozzetta
ISBN: 9781550716092

av Marisa Labozzetta

Häftad, Engelska, 2012-10-01

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Born into Somali royalty and Saudi Arabian wealth, Fatma is given away in infancy and, at age 12, forced into an arranged marriage with a young Peace Corps worker. Prejudice and cultural demands lead to a number of painful promises that will dictate the course of her life on two continents. Sometimes It Snows in America is a novel loosely based on the true account of an African woman's descent into an American hell, and finds its echo in the descent of her native Somalia into its own hell of violent desperation. It leaves the reader with the gifts of unsuspected connection and surprising hope.

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Marisa Labozzetta is the author of the novels,'Sometimes It Snows in America'and'Stay With Me, Lella', and the collections of stories, 'At the Copa' and 'Thieves Never Steal in the Rain'.She is a two-time Eric Hoffer Award winner, a John Gardner Fiction Book Award Finalist, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.