num_pages: 352
description: Sirine is 39, half-Iraqi and half-American and working as a cook in a Middle Eastern restaurant in Los Angeles. She falls for Hanif, a dashing professor at the local university, but she feels that she is too American for him.
language: English
title: Crescent
titlecomplete: Crescent
genres: Cooking, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Food, Adult, Romance, Fiction, Foodie, Contemporary
ratings_count: 2757
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: American Book Award
publisher: Picador