Publication
Knopf (2013), Edition: First Edition, 272 pages
Collections
Awards
Dublin Literary Award (Longlist — 2015)
LA Times Book Prize (Finalist — Fiction — 2013)
Scotiabank Giller Prize (Longlist — 2013)
Maine Readers' Choice Award (Longlist — 2014)
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction (Longlist — Fiction — 2014)
Arab American National Museum Book Award (Honorable Mention — Adult Fiction — 2014)
Boston Globe Best Book (Fiction — 2013)
Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year (General Fiction — 2013)
The Observer Book of the Year (Fiction — 2013)
Notable Books List (Fiction — 2014)
Globe and Mail Top 100 Book (2013)
Content and Summary Info
Bisexual Content: A main character (cisgender woman) has/has had romantic and/or sexual relationships with people of more than one gender.
Intersecting Marginalized Identities: A main character (straight cisgender man) is Lebanese.
Publisher's Summary: Nora Eldridge is a reliable, but unremarkable, friend and neighbor, always on the fringe of other people's achievements. But the arrival of the Shahid family—dashing Skandar, a Lebanese scholar, glamorous Sirena, an Italian artist, and their son, Reza—draws her into a complex and exciting new world...