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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Hassib, Rajia, author.     Subjects     Egyptian Americans -- Fiction.     Muslims -- United States -- Fiction.     Immigrants -- Fiction.     Children -- Death -- Fiction.     Grief -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hassib, Rajia, author.       by title:      In the language of m...         MARC Display

In the language of miracles [electronic resource] / Rajia Hassib. by Hassib, Rajia, author. New York : Viking, c2015. Subjects Egyptian Americans -- Fiction.   Muslims -- United States -- Fiction.   Immigrants -- Fiction.   Children -- Death -- Fiction.   Grief -- Fiction. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=1CFA7402-40B4-4748-B9BF-433AC8D2F756 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1cfa7402-40b4-4748-b9bf-433ac8d2f756&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/1523-1/{1CFA7402-40B4-4748-B9BF-433AC8D2F756}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780698184343 (electronic bk.) 0698184343 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Samir and Nagla Al-Menshawy appear to have attained the American dream. After immigrating to the United States from Egypt, Samir successfully works his way through a residency and launches his own medical practice as Nagla tends to their firstborn, Hosaam, in the cramped quarters of a small apartment. Soon the growing family moves into a big house in the manicured New Jersey suburb of Summerset, where their three children eventually attend school with Natalie Bradstreet, the daughter of their neighbors and best friends. More than a decade later, the family's seemingly stable life is suddenly upended when a devastating turn of events leaves Hosaam and Natalie dead and turns the Al-Menshawys into outcasts in their own town. Narrated a year after Hosaam and Natalie's deaths, Rajia Hassib's heartfelt novel follows the Al-Menshawys during the five days leading up to the memorial service that the Bradstreets have organized to mark the one-year anniversary of their daughter's death. While Nagla strives to understand her role in the tragedy and Samir desperately seeks reconciliation with the community, Khaled, their surviving son, finds himself living in the shadow of his troubled brother. Struggling under the guilt and pressure of being the good son, Khaled turns to the city in hopes of finding happiness away from the painful memories home conjures. Yet he is repeatedly pulled back home to his grandmother, Ehsan, who arrives from Egypt armed with incense, prayers, and an unyielding determination to stop the unraveling of her daughter's family. In Ehsan, Khaled finds either a true hope of salvation or the embodiment of everything he must flee if he is ever to find himself. Writing with unflinchingly honest prose, Rajia Hassib tells the story of one family pushed to the brink by tragedy and mental illness, trying to salvage the life they worked so hard to achieve. The graceful, elegiac voice of In the Language of Miracles paints tender portraits of a family's struggle to move on in the wake of heartbreak, to stay true to its traditions, and above all else, to find acceptance and reconciliation.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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