num_pages: 42
description: When Faris has to take a trip back to his family's home in Lebanon to handle his grandmother's estate, he finds himself caught between the world he left as a child and the world he's built himself in the United States. After an exhausting stay with his boisterous extended family, all he wants is a quiet trip home before Thanksgiving with his parents in Massachusetts. But the weather has different plans for him.Charlie's father left when he was a toddler, and he's never gotten the chance to connect with his paternal roots. A trip to the village his family left in the 1930s gave him the facts, but left him yearning for a history he still didn't feel.When both men are stuck in Beirut for the night unexpectedly, can they find the connection they're missing and make it home by Thanksgiving?
language: English
title: Checked Baggage
publisher: Ninestar Press