{"product_id":"through-and-through-toledo-stories-second-edition-paperback","title":"Through and Through: Toledo Stories, Second Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph Geha\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTreasured in the Arab-American literary community, Through and Through is a collection of ten broadly interrelated stories originally published in 1990. One of the first books of modern Arab American fiction, Geha's stories of-fer a warm, inspired portrait of an extended Arab family in a Lebanese and Syrian community in Toledo, Ohio, spanning the decades between the 1930s and the present. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a series of vignettes, Geha follows three generations of an Arab-American family as they create a new community and way of life, struggling to keep their Arab roots vital while adapting their culture to new conditions. In Holy Toledo, Nadia, a tomboy in her dungarees, watches Ameri-can women come into her town to shop. Although she calls them silly, she wished that she were one of them, returning with them into that huge strangeness, America, luring her despite the threat it seemed to hold of loss and vicious sickness. Portraying both the anguish and the humor of nego-tiating between the old world and the new, these stories offer a passionate, unvarnished glimpse into the lives of an immigrant community.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Lebanon, \u003cb\u003eJoseph Geha\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in a Lebanese-American community in Toledo, Ohio. His short stories, poems, essays, and plays have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies, including the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, Northwest Review, Epoch, Iowa Review, Dinazard's Children, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePost Gibran.\u003c\/i\u003e He has received a Pushcart Prize and a National Endowment for the Arts Award. Geha is professor emeritus at Iowa State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 8.48 x 5.72 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 16, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130462343303,"sku":"9780815632108","price":35.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/f8f994cf434fe9b37ffe6cab352a4aa2.webp?v=1732611006","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/through-and-through-toledo-stories-second-edition-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}