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{"id":6899076300859,"title":"Her First Palestinian","handle":"her-first-palestinian","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nSaeed Teebi’s intense, engrossing stories plunge into the lives of characters grappling with their experiences as Palestinian immigrants to Canada. A doctor teaches his girlfriend about his country, only for her to fall into a consuming obsession with the Middle East conflict. A math professor risks his family’s destruction by slandering the king of a despotic, oil-rich country. A university student invents an imaginary girlfriend to fit in with his callous, womanizing roommates. A lawyer takes on the impossible mission of becoming a body smuggler. A lonely widower travels to Russia in search of a movie starlet he met in his youth in historical Jaffa. A refugee who escaped violent circumstances rebels against the kindness of his sponsor. These taut and compelling stories engage the immigrant experience and reflect the Palestinian diaspora with grace and insight.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-06-27T18:11:02-04:00","created_at":"2022-06-27T17:26:00-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult New Releases","Adult Short Stories","Astoria","By (author) Teebi Saeed","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2022-08-02"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2299,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40499145932859,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487010874","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Her First Palestinian - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":250,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487010874","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40499146719291,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487010881","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Her First Palestinian - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487010881","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_dee1364e-e60a-468e-9615-9aca2168f72c.jpg?v=1659833315"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_dee1364e-e60a-468e-9615-9aca2168f72c.jpg?v=1659833315","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22481918165051,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.786,"height":2100,"width":1650,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_dee1364e-e60a-468e-9615-9aca2168f72c.jpg?v=1659833315"},"aspect_ratio":0.786,"height":2100,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_dee1364e-e60a-468e-9615-9aca2168f72c.jpg?v=1659833315","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nSaeed Teebi’s intense, engrossing stories plunge into the lives of characters grappling with their experiences as Palestinian immigrants to Canada. A doctor teaches his girlfriend about his country, only for her to fall into a consuming obsession with the Middle East conflict. A math professor risks his family’s destruction by slandering the king of a despotic, oil-rich country. A university student invents an imaginary girlfriend to fit in with his callous, womanizing roommates. A lawyer takes on the impossible mission of becoming a body smuggler. A lonely widower travels to Russia in search of a movie starlet he met in his youth in historical Jaffa. A refugee who escaped violent circumstances rebels against the kindness of his sponsor. These taut and compelling stories engage the immigrant experience and reflect the Palestinian diaspora with grace and insight.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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However, their wound is always internal, hidden under their agency, prosperity, and the most basic human need of them all: belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Danny Ramadan, author of The Foghorn Echoes","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003eA gorgeous debut collection of short stories so complex and rich they make me think that Saeed Teebi has been writing for many years. \u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Hasan Namir, author of God in Pink","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003eThis beautiful collection not only brings to light the varied and sometimes fraught experiences of diasporic Palestinians but does so with masterful storytelling. 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In the author’s intelligent grasp we find a heartbreaking tenacity for connection to the here and now and to the land between the river and the sea.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_5_Auth":"Nyla Matuk, author of Stranger","OtherText_Accolades_6":"\u003cp\u003eDispatches from the state of exile, these stories are filled with delightful, devastating turns as Teebi explores the endless fracturing of displacement.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_6_Auth":"Rebecca Sacks, author of City of a Thousand Gates","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe author's short story “Her First Palestinian” was shortlisted for the 2021 CBC Short Story Prize.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThis collection is a much-needed contribution documenting Palestinian issues and culture in the North American diaspora.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThe author wrote these stories in one year during the COVID pandemic.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Competing_titles_0":"\u003cp\u003eElegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003eSaeed Teebi writes with Chekhovian intentionality and Nabokovian rumination. 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Passengers
The sixth and, on the surface, most peculiar poetry collection from Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Michael Crummey.
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Our Voice of Fire
A wildfire of a debut memoir by internationally recognized French/Cree/Iroquois journalist Brandi Morin set to transform the narrative around Indigenous Peoples.
