The night counter
Subtitle: a novel
By: Alia Yunis
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Shaye Areheart Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780307453624
Subjects: Parent and child; Scheherazade (Legendary character); Families; Mothers; Arab American families; Fiction
Description: A magic carpet ride examining the lives of Fatima Abdullah and her huge dysfunctional family. Imitating Scheherazade, Fatima spins her own tales to the legendary storyteller, Scheherazade.  And she has plenty of material: Fatima is dying, and more interested in her prized possessions, including a house in Lebanon, than in reuniting her splintered offspring and her estranged husband, Ibraham.