num_pages: 392
description: Balances are struck in this luminous first novel-between two radically distinct cultures, between obligation and self-will, between past and future, between hilarity and heartbreak-as the Jordanian family of Matussem Ramoud settles in a small, poor-white community in upstate New York. Winner of the Oregon Book Award. PEN/Hemingway First Novel finalist.
language: English
title: Arabian Jazz
titlecomplete: Arabian Jazz (A Harvest Book)
genres: Fiction, Cultural, American, School, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, New York, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 629
places: Syracuse, New York
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Oregon Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Harvest Books