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• Title:The beauty of your face : a novel / Sahar Mustafah.
  
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• Author/Creator:Mustafah, Sahar, author.
  
• Published/Created:New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2020]
  

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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY Great ReadsWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PS3613.U846 B43 2020
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:School shootings--Illinois--Fiction.
  Palestinian Americans--Fiction.
  Muslims--United States--Fiction.
  
• Genre/Form:Social problem fiction.
  Domestic fiction.
  Bildungsromans.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:300 pages ; 22 cm
  
• Summary:"A Palestinian American woman wrestles with faith, loss, and identity before coming face-to-face with a school shooter in this searing debut. A uniquely American story told in powerful, evocative prose, The Beauty of Your Face navigates a country growing ever more divided. Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the principal of Nurrideen School for Girls, a Muslim school in the Chicago suburbs. One morning, a shooter -- radicalized by the online alt-right -- attacks the school. As Afaf listens to his terrifying progress, we are swept back through her memories: the bigotry she faced as a child, her mother's dreams of returning to Palestine, and the devastating disappearance of her older sister that tore her family apart. Still, there is the sweetness of the music from her father's oud, and the hope and community Afaf finally finds in Islam. The Beauty of Your Face is a profound and poignant exploration of one woman's life in a nation at odds with its ideals." -- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes a reading group guide.
  
• ISBN:9781324003380 hardcover
  1324003383 hardcover
  9781324003397 electronic publication
  
• Contents:8 books (300 p., 21 cm.)
  Content list
  Author sheet
  Discussion questions
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