Louise Cainkar
Homeland Insecurity\: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience After 9/11
In Homeland Insecurity\, Marquette University professor Cainkar argues that 9/11 did not create anti-Arab or anti-Muslim suspicion\, but rather that socially constructed images and social and political exclusion existed long before these attacks\, creating an environment in which post 9/11 misunderstanding\, hostility\, and racial profiling could thrive. Focusing on the Chicago Metropolitan area\, Cainkar bases her research on of interviews and in-depth oral histories with native-born and immigrant Palestinians\, Egyptians\, Lebanese\, Iraqis\, Yemenis\, Sudanese\, Jordanians\, and others.
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Shark Girls
In her new novel\, Colbert (Dream Lives of Butterflies\, Climbing the God Tree) explores the intersections of loss and desire in a world ruled by accidents of fate. Set in Hawaii and Maine\, Shark Girls is narrated by two women unwittingly linked by a shark bite disaster\: Scat\, a recovering alcoholic and disaster photographer and Gracie\, a victim of a disfiguring accident. Interspersed with shark lore\, Shark Girls has been praised by Bobbie Ann Mason as a novel of “lively detail\, bold characterization\, and a compelling plot\,” and by Madison Smartt Bell as “a mesmerizing novel\, vibrant with eroticism\, myth\, and mystery.”
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