Towelhead
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: March 29, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780743244947
Subjects: Teenage girls; General; Fiction - General; Fiction; Fiction / General; Arab Americans; Lebanese Americans; Suburban life
First sentence: My mother's boyfriend got a crush on me, so she sent me to live with Daddy.
Description: Sent to live with her strict Lebanese father in Texas upon the outbreak of the Gulf War, Arab-American teen Jasira endures racial taunts from her new classmates and enters into a dangerously exploitative relationship with a bigoted Army reservist.