I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters, (Paperback)

from shmibs

sincerity flowing from half-formed artifice, chinks and cracks and gaping holes. sarah is a woman most herself when trying to be someone else. and so, by extension, is alameddine. he is his characters, whatever guise they take, and their stories are his stories. and this is the book that stays wi...

from booksmitten

If you were telling the story of your life, where would you begin? With your first breath, your first memory, your first love, your first loss? With the story of your family or your people? Each chapter in "I, The Divine" is a new beginning, each chapter a puzzle piece in the life of Sarah Nour E...

from Auntie-Nanuuq

This was very interesting..... Sarah is living in the u.s. after coming here to study from Lebanon... Beirut was a dangerous & unhappy place to live. Her father Lebanese, her mother American, divorced when Sarah was two... Her father then married a much younger woman, a Lebanese peasant, who made...

from wandering_star

This book consists entirely of first chapters of a memoir that the narrator, Sarah Nour el-Din, is trying to write - but where should she begin? and how should she seek to write the story of her life? The longest chapter is around a dozen pages - some are only a paragraph or two. Some are fiction...

from shmibs

sincerity flowing from half-formed artifice, chinks and cracks and gaping holes. sarah is a woman most herself when trying to be someone else. and so, by extension, is alameddine. he is his characters, whatever guise they take, and their stories are his stories. and this is the book that stays wi...