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Sunday, April 16, 2006

Towelhead

Quite different approaches, and based on the description of the book, it's the paperback (top) that gets it right:

Jasira, the 13-year-old narrator of Erian's bluntly erotic first novel, can't hide her budding sexuality. When her mother sends her to live with her Lebanese-born father in Houston, she endures anti-Arab slurs, the attentions of a predatory neighbor, and her father's mix of Old World Dignity and undisguised hostility.