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SUMMARY:Sophia Al-Maria's memoir The Girl Who Fell to Earth
DESCRIPTION:email books@themarkaz.org to join this event on Zoom\nMarch 2023 BookGroup Selection is The Girl Who Fell to Earth\, a memoir by Sophia Al-Maria (discussing the book on Sunday\, March 26\, 13 Eastern/18:00 CET).\nAward-winning filmmaker and writer Sophia Al-Maria’s The Girl Who Fell to Earth is a funny and wry coming-of-age memoir about growing up in between American and Gulf Arab cultures. Part family saga and part personal quest\, The Girl Who Fell to Earth traces Al-Maria’s journey to make a place for herself in two different worlds. \nWhen Sophia Al-Maria’s mother sends her away from rainy Washington State to stay with her husband’s desert-dwelling Bedouin family in Qatar\, she intends it to be a sort of teenage cultural boot camp. What her mother doesn’t know is that there are some things about growing up that are universal. In Qatar\, Sophia is faced with a new world she’d only imagined as a child. She sets out to find her freedom\, even in the most unlikely of places. \nThe Girl Who Fell to Earth takes readers from the green valleys of the Pacific Northwest to the dunes of the Arabian Gulf and on to the sprawling chaos of Cairo. Struggling to adapt to her nomadic lifestyle\, Sophia is haunted by the feeling that she is perpetually in exile: hovering somewhere between two families\, two cultures\, and two worlds. She must make a place for herself—a complex journey that includes finding young love in the Arabian Gulf\, rebellion in Cairo\, and\, finally\, self-discovery in the mountains of Sinai. \nThe Girl Who Fell to Earth heralds the arrival of an electric new talent and takes us on the most personal of quests: the voyage home.
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