In a memoir about the joys and difficulties of straddling two cultures, the author of Arabian Jazz describes her life in upstate New York with an extended Arab and American family, her family's move 'home' to Jordan, and her return to...

"A full-course meal, a rich, complex and memorable story that will leave you lingering gratefully at [Abu-Jaber's] table."—Ron Charles, Washington PostAt thirteen, Felice Muir ran away from home to punish herself for some...

Arab-American Sirine, a 39-year-old chef in a Lebanese restaurant in Los Angeles, has never been married--or even particularly interested in men. Then a handsome professor falls in love with her, and as their romance develops, Sirine ...

Winner of the Oregon Book Award and finalist for the National PEN/Hemingway Award. In Diana Abu-Jaber's 'impressive, entertaining' (Chicago Tribune) first novel, a small, poor-white community in upstate New York becomes home to the tr...

Known for her books on Arab-American themes, Crescent, Arabian Jazz, and The Language of Baklava, Abu-Jaber makes a departure here, into a whole new world of mystery, alienation and unanswered questions. Lena Dawson is a fingerprint ...