Randa Jarrar discusses her novel, A Map of Home

Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home is a novel that changes the landscape of Arab-American fiction. Nidali, the narrator and a young half-Palestinian, half-Egyptian/Greek girl, shares the story of her life from birth to college, leaving no questionable power dynamic unburned along the way. From outsmarting overbearing and abusive men, writing cavalier letters to Saddam [...]