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Marston, Elsa

Figs and Fate: Stories about Growing Up in the Arab World Today

135 pp. | Braziller | April, 2005 | Trade ISBN 0-8076-1551-X $22.50 | Paper ISBN 0-8076-1554-4 $15.95
(2) YA The five stories in this collection are each set in a different part of the Middle East (Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and a Palestinian refugee camp) and feature contemporary characters dealing with a "complicated, baffling world." Each of these provocative tales presents its protagonist as belonging to a different culture yet being in many ways similar to young people everywhere.
Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2005

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