Diana Abu-Jaber
Diana Abu-Jaber's novel, Birds of Paradise (Norton, $25.95), is set in Miami, where after five years of skateboarding, clubbing, and sleeping in a squat house or on the beach, Felice is about to turn eighteen. Felice must reckon with the guilty secret that drove her away, and face her fear of losing her family and her sense of self forever. "From the verdant streets of Coral Gables to the back lots of Little Haiti and the seedy underbelly of Miami Beach, the metropolis is floridly, meticulously detailed," says The New York Times. Abu-Jaber is the author of her memoir-with-recipes, The Language of Baklava, and two novels.
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