The Apricot Tree
Will be published approx. on 26. January 2027
Book
Paperback/Softback
180 pages
978-1-62557-235-6 (ISBN)
Description
Selected for The Immigrant Writing Series, The Apricot Tree invites us into a collection of linked short stories that reveal the lives of immigrants from different countries who find themselves in the Arab neighborhood of Bay Ridge in Brooklyn, NY. At the center is Busyana who arrives from Egypt at an older age and settles into a life within her new community. Her interactions with each person she encounters creates a transformation as they continue on their journey. One by one, each person tells their own story-- Adnan, a Palestinian server at the local bakery who has recently arrived from Gaza; Dina, Busyana's niece who struggles with her sense of identity; Masud, Busyana's brother who remains in an unhappy marriage; Dominykas, a Lithuanian man who lost his wife; and Anhur, a young Chinese girl who searches for a sense of belonging. We live with these characters as they carry the weight of their lost homes and attempt to make a new life.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Watertown
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 139 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-62557-235-6 (9781625572356)
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Pauline Kaldas was born in Egypt and immigrated to the US when she was eight years old. She is the author of The Measure of Distance, Looking Both Ways, The Time Between Places, Letters from Cairo, Egyptian Compass, and the textbook, Writing the Multicultural Experience. She also co-edited Dinarzad's Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction and Beyond Memory: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Creative Nonfiction. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Hollins University. www.paulinekaldas.com