"Every [story] tells a different example of culture clash . . . but all conclude with a resolution, a success in overcoming prejudice or anxiety, a state of settling oneself with difference."—Middle East Review
"The stories in this modest, admirable book offer sharp, illuminating glimpses into the lives of this Arab American clan. Khirallah Noble's elliptical, closeup prose cuts to the marrow of experience, often presented in fragments from which we glean the whole."—Los Angeles Times
"Exquisite, beautifully crafted stories by a writer of such assurance that you'd think this was her tenth collection rather than her first."—T. Coraghessan Boyle
September 2000
