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Crescent

Diana Abu-Jaber

Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 2395 Users | 347 Reviews

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Original Title:	Crescent
ISBN:	0330413279 (ISBN13: 9780330413275)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	American Book Award (2004)

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A forty-year old chef, half American-half Iraqi falls in love with an Iraqi-exiled professor. The book is set in the Arab-American community in Los Angeles, and dances around some very complex family dynamics, love, and Arab culture. I found the book to be very slow at times, but liked the focus on Arab food/recipes and the differences highlighted among various Arab cultures. Chef Sirine and Professor Hanif made some poor decisions. Also, I found the Arab fable at the beginning of each chapter to be more annoying than interesting despite its mysticism.

I preferred Pauls Toutonghi's Evil Knievel Days, which had similar themes.

Favorite irreverent quote: In reality, dogs are only reincarnated monks who didn't say their prayers right."

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Title	:	Crescent
Author	:	Diana Abu-Jaber
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	May 7th 2004 by Pan MacMillan (first published April 1st 2003)
Categories	:	Fiction. Food and Drink. Food. Romance. Contemporary

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Ratings: 3.79 From 2395 Users | 347 Reviews

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This book was highly recommended and rated well, but I found the main character to be totally uninteresting. Well, she liked to cook, but that seemed to be all. She cooked lamb ... a lot. If you like reading about uninteresting people cooking lamb, read this book. Some other stuff happened too, but it wasn't interesting either.

I'm a little conflicted on this one and I'm not sure why. (Okay, I know why in some ways because I just wanted to throw the book across the room and yell AARGH!) The writing style was a little different. It was as if each noun required a descriptor (a little annoying at first). After I got the rhythm of the writing it went a little quicker. At some times I felt really invested in the characters (the writer wrote a passage regarding the lead character, Sirina, that seemed to be written about me)

I admit it, I'm such a design whore that I have a hard time NOT choosing a book by its cover. Sometimes I really luck out, as was the case with this PSU professor's book. A beautifully written, intensely rich and evocative book about love, family, food, and finding your place. Which is a really crappy description but somehow accurate.

Again, this book proves that it is possible to take a cheesy romance novel and pad it up with talk of food and the political situation, making it readable, but never more than that.

I really enjoyed this one. Abu-Jaber did a great job infusing Arab culture (language, art, food, poetry) into a story set in LA. The love story, too, was refreshing--the characters were much older. It was interesting to me because an unmarried Arab woman in her late 30s is not generally someone who is looked upon with as much awe and respect as was Sirine. Like others, I was not a fan of Abu-Jaber's structure and thought that the fable that continued from the beginning of one chapter to another

The writing in this is just beautiful. The book is full of the tastes and smells of the Arab community of Los Angeles. Sirine is half-American and half-Iraqi. She lost her Iraqi father and American mother when she was just a child and they were on one of their many aid missions. She was raised by her Iraqi uncle - a very sweet and intelligent man. Sirine is 39 years old and a cook in a restaurant in the community. The book reminded me of other well-written books about exotic (to me) foods that

Sirine, almost 40, tries to come to terms with her cultural background (her father was Iraqi), and also tries to understand an Iraqi expatriate professor that she starts to fall in love with. With many references to the cooking of the Middle East (I love foodie lit!).