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A 3 page book review of this memoir, which describes the way in which the author centers her childhood and adolescent memories of her family around the their traditions of food. No additional sources cited.
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which involved the struggle to live up to her fathers expectations for a good Arab girl, as well as her desire to be confident American woman. Throughout her childhood and
adolescence, a constant in her often changing life-in a fit of homesickness her father moves them to Jordan-is the comfort and the social ties that surround food and family meals.
Therefore, the motif of food plays an important role in her story, as the author uses food, food preparation and eating as a means to develop characterization. This is
particularly true in regards to Abu-Jabers father, whom she calls Bud. As an immigrant, full of "hopefulness and determination," she recounts how her father worked multiple jobs and would eat
fast food during the week, but on weekends, he would cook. She states, "Bud misses the old country so much, its like a ache in his blood" (Abu-Jaber 20). As
he stands, cooking a pan of liver and onions, he sings songs in Arabic and "gazes fondly at the flying liver as if it is singing sweetly back to him"
(Abu=Jaber 20). As this suggests, food has symbolic meaning for her father that is identified with his longing for his homeland. The explains that "he is eating the shadow of
a memory. He cook to remember" (Abu-Jaber 190). Food is also a means of conveying love-"To my mind, this is the best way to show love-to offer food from
your own hand" (Abu-Jaber 8). Through her stories, which all center around food, helping with its preparation, sharing it with her fathers large extended family, the reader gets to know
the author as a lively, spunky little girl and then as a thoughtful young woman. She relates her first instance of exposures to racial bigotry-how the nuns would not allow
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