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Inspired by his volunteer work at Lesbos refugee camps over the years, Alameddine has written a deeply moving and innovative novel threading together the stories of one refugee family seeking asylum, a trans woman's coming of age, and a writer's struggle over how to relate the scope of such horrific humanitarian crisis. ...

By National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine, comes a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman's journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island

Daring, dazzling . . . a tough, funny, heart-breaking book.”-Seattle Times "[A] refreshing statement of honesty and endurance ...funny, brave full of heart and willing to say things about war and disease, sexual and cultural politics that have rarely been said so boldly or directly before.”-The Sunday Oregonian When National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle finalist Rabih Alameddine's dazzling literary debut Koolaids first publish...

Winner of the California Book Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for the National Book Award "Beautiful and absorbing.”-New York Times An Unnecessary Woman is a breathtaking portrait of one reclusive woman's late-life crisis, which garnered a wave of rave reviews and love letters to Alameddine's cranky yet charming septuagenarian protagonist, Aaliya, a character you "can't help but love” (NPR). Aaliya's insi...

An elegy for a lost generation of gay men [and] a structurally inventive bildungsroman . . . The Angel of History marks the triumph of memory over oblivion." -Bookforum