

Behind You Is the Sea, (Hardcover)
Key item features
- Behind You Is the Sea, (Hardcover)
- Author: Harpervia
- ISBN: 9780063324237
- Format: Hardcover
- Publication Date: 2024-01-16
- Page Count: 256
Specs
- Book formatHardcover
- Fiction/nonfictionFiction
- GenreLiterature & Fiction
- Publication dateJanuary, 2024
- Pages256
- Reading levelGeneral
- Free shipping
Free 30-day returns
How do you want your item?
More seller options (8)
About this item
Product details
2025 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST - ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD FINALIST
Washington Post Notable Works of Fiction from 2024 - Booklist Top 10 Debut Novels of 2024 - Ms. Magazine Favorite Books of the Year 2024 - Elle.com The Best Literary Fiction Books of 2024 - The New Yorker Best Books of 2024 - NPR Books We Love 2024 - NPR staffers pick their favorite fiction reads of 2024 - Chicago Public Library Must Read Books of 2024 for Fiction - Kirkus Reviews 20 Early 2024 Books We Love - San Francisco Chronicle Best Books of Winter 2023 - Muslim Girl "12 Palestinian Books that Deserve Your Shelf Space"
"A beautiful portrait of a family reaching for their dreams while holding on to their roots."--Publishers Weekly
"Each chapter reads like a small masterpiece."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
An exciting debut novel of interconnected stories that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore--from young activists in conflict with their traditional parents to the poor who clean for the rich--lives which intersect across divides of class, generation, and religion.
Funny and touching, Behind You Is the Sea brings us into the homes and lives of three main families--the Baladis, the Salamehs, and the Ammars--Palestinian immigrants who've all found a different welcome in America.
Their various fates and struggles cause their community dynamic to sizzle and sometimes explode: The wealthy Ammar family employs young Maysoon Baladi, whose own family struggles financially, to clean up after their spoiled teenagers. Meanwhile, Marcus Salameh confronts his father in an effort to protect his younger sister for "dishonoring" their name. Only a trip to Palestine, where Marcus experiences an unexpected and dramatic transformation, can bridge this seemingly unbridgeable divide between the two generations.
Behind You Is the Sea faces stereotypes about Palestinian culture head-on and, shifting perspectives to weave a complex social fabric, this compelling family saga is replete with weddings, funerals, broken hearts, and devastating secrets.
- Behind You Is the Sea, (Hardcover)
- Author: Harpervia
- ISBN: 9780063324237
- Format: Hardcover
- Publication Date: 2024-01-16
- Page Count: 256
Specifications
Book format
Fiction/nonfiction
Genre
Publication date
Warranty
Warranty information
Similar items you might like
Based on what customers bought
Best seller Then She Was Gone: A Novel (Paperback) $9.49
Best seller
$949current price $9.49Then She Was Gone: A Novel (Paperback)
964.7 out of 5 Stars. 96 reviewsBest seller 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (Mass Market Paperback), English $6.27
Best seller
$627current price $6.271984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (Mass Market Paperback), English
1124.7 out of 5 Stars. 112 reviewsBest seller Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback) $10.90
Best seller
$1090current price $10.90Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
394.7 out of 5 Stars. 39 reviewsBest seller The Book of Bill (Hardcover) $11.32
Best seller
2 optionsAvailable in additional 2 options$1132current price $11.32The Book of Bill (Hardcover)
2284.7 out of 5 Stars. 228 reviewsEverything I Never Told You: A Novel (Paperback) $9.66
$966current price $9.66Everything I Never Told You: A Novel (Paperback)
1304 out of 5 Stars. 130 reviewsBest seller Fahrenheit 451: A Novel (Paperback) $13.71
Best seller
$1371current price $13.71Fahrenheit 451: A Novel (Paperback)
864.8 out of 5 Stars. 86 reviewsBest seller Resurrection: A Novel (Paperback) $3.99
Best seller
$399current price $3.99Resurrection: A Novel (Paperback)
75 out of 5 Stars. 7 reviewsThe Historian, (Paperback) $5.44
$544current price $5.44The Historian, (Paperback)
4133.6 out of 5 Stars. 413 reviewsCirce, (Paperback) $8.49
$849current price $8.49Circe, (Paperback)
15 out of 5 Stars. 1 reviewsBest seller Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Paperback English $3.99
Best seller
2 optionsAvailable in additional 2 options$399current price $3.99Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Paperback English
174.3 out of 5 Stars. 17 reviewsBest seller The Lost Bookshop (Paperback) $6.51
Best seller
$651current price $6.51The Lost Bookshop (Paperback)
304.8 out of 5 Stars. 30 reviewsThis Is Happiness (Paperback) $10.15
$1015current price $10.15This Is Happiness (Paperback)
54.2 out of 5 Stars. 5 reviewsBest seller Margo's Got Money Troubles: A Novel (Paperback) $13.86
Best seller
$1386current price $13.86Margo's Got Money Troubles: A Novel (Paperback)
Together for Forever (Paperback) $8.98
$898current price $8.98Together for Forever (Paperback)
43.8 out of 5 Stars. 4 reviewsBest seller All the Light We Cannot See $10.18
Best seller
3 optionsAvailable in additional 3 options$1018current price $10.18All the Light We Cannot See
274.8 out of 5 Stars. 27 reviewsBest seller The Four Winds: A Novel (Paperback) $10.13
Best seller
$1013current price $10.13The Four Winds: A Novel (Paperback)
385 out of 5 Stars. 38 reviewsBest seller The Five-Star Weekend, (Paperback) $8.69
Best seller
$869current price $8.69The Five-Star Weekend, (Paperback)
134.8 out of 5 Stars. 13 reviewsVintage Classics: Notes from Underground (Paperback) $7.45
$745current price $7.45Vintage Classics: Notes from Underground (Paperback)
45 out of 5 Stars. 4 reviewsBest seller Every Summer After (Paperback) $12.85
Best seller
$1285current price $12.85Every Summer After (Paperback)
464.5 out of 5 Stars. 46 reviewsVintage International Klara and the Sun: A GMA Book Club Pick, (Paperback) $6.35 Was $8.09
$635current price $6.35, Was $8.09$8.09Vintage International Klara and the Sun: A GMA Book Club Pick, (Paperback)
13 out of 5 Stars. 1 reviews
