Ebook {Epub PDF} Origin by Diana Abu-Jaber

Diana Abu-Jaber does an impressive job of it in THE ORIGIN. Her novel is set in Syracuse, New York. She uses weather to full effect as most of the story occurs during the winter time, and its main character, Lena Dawson, is susceptible to frost bite. Diana Abu-Jaber is the award-winning author of four novels, including Crescent, and a previous memoir, The Language of Baklava. She and her family divide time between Miami, Florida, and Portland, Oregon. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition/5(78). "With prose as cool as a razor yet as wildly impressionistic as a fever dream, Diana Abu-Jaber takes us deeply into Lena Dawson and her search for a killer that must first begin in the lost forest of her own psyche. Origin is a gripping exploration of the elusive nature of identity and one’s own remembered past, the innocent and guilty alike. This is a superbly written and utterly compelling novel."/5(78).

A moody thriller from Arab-American Abu-Jaber (The Language of Baklava, , etc.) that transposes the author's usual questions of identity onto a young lab tech who believes she was raised by www.doorway.ru is grim for Lena Dawson, a fingerprint examiner for the Syracuse police. Uncertain about her own origins, or her sanity, the delicately pretty technician has carved out a spare existence for. —Diana Abu-Jaber. Diana Abu-Jaber was born in Syracuse, New York to an American mother and a Jordanian father. When she was seven, her family moved to Jordan for two years, and she has lived between the US and Jordan ever since. Origin, a page-turner set in the author's hometown of Syracuse, explores issues of memory and identity. Author Bio: Diana Abu-Jaber. Diana Abu-Jaber is the author of Origin, Crescent, The Language of Baklava, and Arabian www.doorway.ru has won the PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction, the Oregon Book Award, and other prizes. Her writing appears in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Slate, Ms., Gourmet, Salon, and Vogue, and she is frequently featured on National Public Radio.

Abu-Jaber was born in Syracuse, New York. Her father was Jordanian [2] with a Palestinian Jerusalemite mother; Diana's mother was American, descended from Irish and German roots. [1] At the age of seven, she moved with her family for two years to Jordan. Diana Abu-Jaber does an impressive job of it in THE ORIGIN. Her novel is set in Syracuse, New York. She uses weather to full effect as most of the story occurs during the winter time, and its main character, Lena Dawson, is susceptible to frost bite. "With prose as cool as a razor yet as wildly impressionistic as a fever dream, Diana Abu-Jaber takes us deeply into Lena Dawson and her search for a killer that must first begin in the lost forest of her own psyche. Origin is a gripping exploration of the elusive nature of identity and one’s own remembered past, the innocent and guilty alike. This is a superbly written and utterly compelling novel.".