03121cam a2200337 4500 997821920 TxAuBib 20231003120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780802157829 0802157823 B08YS6519N Amazon 674b7154-2074-41ea-814e-3d7d7a9c9248 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 6133557 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Alameddine, Rabih. The Wrong End of the Telescope [Libby eBook]. Grove Atlantic, 2021. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2332kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><b>WINNER OF THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION<br /></b></p> <p><strong>By National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine, comes a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman's journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island.</strong></p> <p>Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp's children. Soon, a boat crosses bringing Sumaiya, a fiercely resolute Syrian matriarch with terminal liver cancer. Determined to protect her children and husband at all costs, Sumaiya refuses to alert her family to her diagnosis. Bonded together by Sumaiya's secret, a deep connection sparks between the two women, and as Mina prepares a course of treatment with the limited resources on hand, she confronts the circumstances of the migrants' displacement, as well as her own constraints in helping them.</p> <p>Not since the inimitable Aaliya of An Unnecessary Woman has Rabih Alameddine conjured such a winsome heroine to lead us to one of the most wrenching conflicts of our time. Cunningly weaving in stories of other refugees into Mina's singular own, The Wrong End of the Telescope is a bedazzling tapestry of both tragic and amusing portraits of indomitable spirits facing a humanitarian crisis.</p>. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Notable Books for Adults. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-10-02 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=674b7154-2074-41ea-814e-3d7d7a9c9248&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=674b7154-2074-41ea-814e-3d7d7a9c9248&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=674b7154-2074-41ea-814e-3d7d7a9c9248&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXGID