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001    on1375496791 
003    OCoLC 
005    20230425091437.0 
008    230411s2023    nyua          000 1 eng   
010      2022038974 
020    9780593499535|q(hardcover ;|qacid-free paper) 
020    0593499530|q(hardcover ;|qacid-free paper) 
035    (OCoLC)1375496791 
040    DLC|beng|erda|cCO2|dCO2|dUAP|dMBT 
049    CKEA 
050 00 PS3603.Y67|bS57 2023 
082 00 813/.6|223/eng/20220829 
100 1  Cypher, Sarah,|eauthor. 
245 14 The skin and its girl :|ba novel /|cSarah Cypher. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bBallantine Books,|c[2023] 
300    x, 335 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together
       her great-aunt's secrets in this sweeping debut, a family 
       saga confronting questions of sexual identity, exile, and 
       lineage. In a Pacific Northwest hospital far from the 
       Rummani family's ancestral home in Palestine, the heart of
       a stillborn baby begins to beat and her skin turns a 
       vibrant, permanent cobalt blue. On the same day, the 
       Rummanis' centuries-old soap factory in Nablus is 
       destroyed in an air strike. The family matriarch and 
       keeper of all Rummani lore, Aunt Nuha, believes that the 
       blue girl embodies their sacred history, harkening to a 
       time when the Rummanis were among the wealthiest soap-
       makers and their blue soap was a symbol of a legendary 
       love. Decades later, Betty returns to her Aunt Nuha's 
       gravestone, faced with a difficult decision: Should she 
       stay in the only country she's ever known or should she 
       follow her heart for the woman she loves, perpetuating her
       family's cycle of exile? Betty finds her answer in 
       partially translated notebooks that reveal her aunt's 
       complex life and struggle with her own sexuality, which 
       Nuha hid to help the family emigrate to the United States.
       But, as Betty soon discovers, her aunt hid much more than 
       that. The Skin and Its Girl is a searing, poetic tale 
       about desire and identity, and a provocative exploration 
       of how we let stories divide, unite, and define us--and 
       even wield the power to restore a broken family. Sarah 
       Cypher is that rare debut novelist who writes with the 
       mastery and flair of a seasoned storyteller"--|cProvided 
       by publisher. 
650  0 Palestinian Americans|vFiction. 
650  0 Great-aunts|vFiction. 
650  0 Family secrets|vFiction. 
650  0 Soap|zPalestine|vFiction. 
655  7 Lesbian fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 Novels.|2lcgft 
947    MARCIVE Processed 2023/05/05 
994    C0|bCKE