Title: Lifted by the great nothing
Description: "At the center of this offbeat, big-hearted, and often dark world are a [Lebanese-American] son and his father trying to live normal lives by desperately keeping buried anything that identifies them as 'other.' With its poignant relationships, surprising love stories, and unsettling misadventures, [this book] is a ... portrait of a young man coming to terms with his country's--and his own--violent past"--
Subjects: Family secrets, Lebanese Americans, Fiction, Fathers and sons, History, Fiction, family life, Fathers and sons, fiction, Lebanon, history, civil war, 1975-1990, fiction, Fiction, general, New jersey, fiction
Places: Lebanon
Time periods: Civil War, 1975-1990