
The Wild Fox of Yemen
Author: Almontaser, Threa
ISBN: 9781644450505
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RM123.76
PublisherGraywolf PrPublication DateFormat PaperbackWeight 204.12 gNo. of Pages 101
By turns aggressively reckless and fiercely protective, always guided by faith and ancestry, Threa Almontaser's incendiary debut asks how mistranslation can be a form of self-knowledge and survival. A love letter to the country and people of Yemen, a portrait of young Muslim womanhood in New York after 9/11, and an extraordinarily composed examination of what it means to carry in the body the echoes of what came before, Almontaser's polyvocal collection sneaks artifacts to and from worlds, repurposing language and adapting to the space between cultures--