| Summary |
A Girl Made of Dust is a sophisticated exploration of one family’s private battle to survive in the midst of civil war.In her peaceful town outside Beirut, Ruba is slowly awakening to the shifting contours within her household: hardly speaking and refusing to work, her father has inexplicably withdrawn from his family; her once-youthful mother looks so sad that Ruba imagines her heart must have withered like a fig in the heat; and Ruba’s older brother has begun to secretly meet with older boys who carry guns. When Ruba decides that to salvage her family she must first save her father, she uncovers a long-buried secret that will send her on a journey away from the safety of childhood and into a brutal reality where men kill in the name of faith and race, past wrongs remain unforgiven, and where nothing less than courageous acts of sacrifice and unity can offer survival.A Girl Made of Dust is a coming-of-age story sparked, but not consumed, by... |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. New York : Grove Press, Black Cat, 2010. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2126 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB). |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Fiction.
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Literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9780802144874 |
| ISBN |
9780802199881 (electronic bk) |
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