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After a five year absence, an 18-year-old runaway returns to her family in Miami to deal with the guilty secret that caused her to flee, in a new novel from the author of Origin. (general fiction).
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Diana Abu-Jaber is the award-winning author of four novels, including Crescent, and two memoirs, Life Without a Recipe and The Language of Baklava. She and her family divide time between Miami, Florida, and Portland, Oregon.
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“This Jordanian American author writes about food so enticingly that her books should be published on sheets of phyllo dough. Birds of Paradise contains her most mouthwatering writing ever, but it’s no light after-dinner treat. This is a full-course meal, a rich, complex and memorable story that will leave you lingering gratefully at her table.”
- Ron Charles, The Washington Post
“The Muirs’ absorbing story builds to a thoroughly satisfying climax.”
- Sue Corbett, People Magazine
“The novel itself swells with life and style, with the stark contrast of the delicacy of fancy pastries and the down and dirty life on the beach.”
- Alan Cheuse, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA., NPR, All Things Considered
“Diana Abu-Jaber’s gorgeous novel explores the ways a modern family can break down and be reborn. She writes with a precise, almost poetic distillation of feeling, heightened in contrast to the ripe, exuberant landscape and the unsettled feelings of a family in limbo.”
- Amy Driscoll, Miami Herald
“With Birds of Paradise, Abu-Jaber has made an amazing, gigantic leap into rare air, that hazy stratosphere we jokingly call The Big Time. Her novel is that worthy, and that beautiful.”
- Christine Selk, The Oregonian
- Ron Charles, The Washington Post
“The Muirs’ absorbing story builds to a thoroughly satisfying climax.”
- Sue Corbett, People Magazine
“The novel itself swells with life and style, with the stark contrast of the delicacy of fancy pastries and the down and dirty life on the beach.”
- Alan Cheuse, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA., NPR, All Things Considered
“Diana Abu-Jaber’s gorgeous novel explores the ways a modern family can break down and be reborn. She writes with a precise, almost poetic distillation of feeling, heightened in contrast to the ripe, exuberant landscape and the unsettled feelings of a family in limbo.”
- Amy Driscoll, Miami Herald
“With Birds of Paradise, Abu-Jaber has made an amazing, gigantic leap into rare air, that hazy stratosphere we jokingly call The Big Time. Her novel is that worthy, and that beautiful.”
- Christine Selk, The Oregonian
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- PublisherThorndike Press
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1410445070
- ISBN 13 9781410445070
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