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In this powerful debut novel, narrator Liana Bialik is fourteen years old when her American father's suicide forces her family to leave their New York suburb and return to her mother's native Jerusalem, where the beauty and turmoil are a startling backdrop to her sexual and emotional discovery. With her young lover, she escapes the stifling ties of her family and her mother's home to live in the Palestinian world beyond Jerusalem's border. Center for New Words Thursday, September 22, 2005 Center for New Words http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=1960