| Title : | Jigsaw | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Janet E Sahafi, Author | | Publisher: | Dublin : Poolbeg Press | | Publication Date: | 1999 | | Pagination: | 284 p. | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-1-85371-862-5 | | Class number: | 813.54 | | Abstract: | Uprooted, abandoned, abused, Genelle Alkis pieces together the people, places and experiences tbhat have shaped her life. Divorced, mother of two, trapped in a world of addiction, she's fighting for her life. She reaches hack deeply into her American past, fingering fragments of the racial, religious and cultural clashes which have made her life a battleground: the struggle between her Christian farm-girl mother and her Jewish city-bred father, her doomed love affair with a Chinese-American, her eventual abusive marriage to a Turkish radical . . . In Jigsaw she struggles to put her shattered life hack together, to retrace her steps and find the missing pieces of the puzzle, the answer to the questions -'Who? Why? When?' |
Jigsaw [printed text] / Janet E Sahafi, Author . - Dublin : Poolbeg Press, 1999 . - 284 p. ISBN : 978-1-85371-862-5 | Class number: | 813.54 | | Abstract: | Uprooted, abandoned, abused, Genelle Alkis pieces together the people, places and experiences tbhat have shaped her life. Divorced, mother of two, trapped in a world of addiction, she's fighting for her life. She reaches hack deeply into her American past, fingering fragments of the racial, religious and cultural clashes which have made her life a battleground: the struggle between her Christian farm-girl mother and her Jewish city-bred father, her doomed love affair with a Chinese-American, her eventual abusive marriage to a Turkish radical . . . In Jigsaw she struggles to put her shattered life hack together, to retrace her steps and find the missing pieces of the puzzle, the answer to the questions -'Who? Why? When?' |
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