The Situe Stories - Hardcover
by Frances Noble (Author)
The Situe, or Arab grandmother, moves in and out of this collection of eleven short stories, forming an irresistible drama of an extended Arab family in twentieth-century America. Frances Khirallah Noble's deft and accomplished tales draw her experiences and the stories told by grandmothers, aunts, and other female relatives. Each story is complete in itself, but read together they fuse to form a powerful whole.
Khirallah Noble writes of immigrants tom between two cultures, the lure of capitalist success versus the cost of assimilation, marital and parental tensions, youth and age, innovation and tradition. Chronologically arranged and covering much of the twentieth century, the book begins with Hasna Elias's immigration to America from what is now Syria and Lebanon, and ends in the present, where the situe lives in a Southern California home for the elderly. Containing elements of magic and stoicism, the stories present textured characters rich in independence,Frances Khirallah Noble, a lawyer, lives in Santa Monica, California, with her family. She has written a number of short stories and a novel, The Old Neighborhood, and is at work on her next novel.
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