| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
321 pages ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
Barnes's (A Country Called Home) latest novel is about a girl, Gin, who trades on her rural Oklahoma life for a journey to 1967 Saudi Arabia. Orphaned at seven and forced to live with her strict religious grandfather, she ends up pregnant during her rebellious high school years. Her new husband, Mason, gets a job working for an oil company, first in Houston, TX, and then in Saudi Arabia. The couple move to a walled-in American compound in the middle of the desert. Gina's first-person narration is meant to show her as independent, progressive, and at times incredibly naive as she tries to adjust both to life in the compound and in the new country. Her bouts of cultural confusion, along with oil politics, lead to a crisis. |
| Subject |
Young women -- Fiction.
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Americans -- Middle East -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780307273390 hardback |
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0307273393 hardback |
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