Happy Family is a novel whose ironic title refers to a Manhattan family that is far from happy. We see this family through the eyes of an immigrant named Hua from Fu Zhou, China. Author Wendy Lee is Chinese-American, and it is as if she took her own disparate experiences (teaching English in China and […]
Leila Binder
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I’jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody
In Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, a prisoner is given pen and paper to write. A guard turns his musings in to the secret police. This fictitious “document” is the novel I’jaam. I’jaam are the dots that indicate vowels in the Arabic script. Arabic is often written without dots, the meaning is inferred from the context. Not […]