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Sometimes it snows in America / Marisa Labozzetta.

Title
Sometimes it snows in America / Marisa Labozzetta.
Author
Labozzetta, Marisa
Publication
Toronto : Guernica Editions, 2012.

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Description
293 p.; 21 cm.
Summary
Fatma was born into Somali royalty and Saudi Arabian wealth, but as a young girl is forced into an arranged marriage with a Peace Corps worker.
Series Statement
Essential prose series ; 96
Uniform Title
Essential prose series 96.
Subject
  • Women, Somali > United States > Fiction
  • Somali Americans > Fiction
  • Forced marriage > Fiction
  • Women immigrants > United States > Fiction
  • Somalia > Emigration and immigration > Fiction
  • United States > Emigration and immigration > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Fiction
  • Novels
Additional Formats (note)
  • Issued also in electronic formats.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
I. Shelby house of correction 1995 -- Island girl 1966 -- Retrothed -- Katundu -- II. Carlington -- Mombasa eye -- The penny house -- More promises -- Hostess with the mostess -- III. Iblis -- Lady liberty -- Columbus day -- The feast -- At the top of the hub -- In Muslim law -- The house of the five -- headed monster -- IV. Daughters of Muhammad -- A higher power -- The closet -- A new identity -- V. Shangazi -- Lamu -- Imani -- Willowsville 2001.
ISBN
  • 9781550716092
  • 1550716093
OCLC
  • 821071723
  • SCSB-11764038
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library