Novel

A Map of Home

A novel about a childhood in the Middle East and America, from an exciting new voice

Randa Jarrar’s fresh, funny and fearless debut novel chronicles the coming-of-age of Nidali, one of the most unique and irrepressible narrators in contemporary fiction. Born in 1970s Boston to an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father, the rebellious Nidali—whose name is a feminization of the word “struggle”— soon moves to a very different life in Kuwait. There the family leads a mildly eccentric middle-class existence—until the Iraqi invasion drives them first to Egypt and then to Texas. With echoes of Jhumpa Lahiri and Marjane Satrapi, this critically acclaimed debut novel is set to capture the hearts of everyone who’s ever wondered what their own map of home might look like.

You can buy the novel at your local bookstore or on Amazon, Powells, orB&Noble.

“[An] extraordinary debut…Jarrar’s lack of sentimentality, and her wry sense of humor, make Home a treasure ”—People (four stars)

“A Map of Home will leave you laughing out loud.”—Entertainment Weekly (Grade: A-)

“Randa Jarrar takes all the sappy, beloved clichés about ‘where you hang your hat’ and blows them to smithereens in her energizing, caustically comic debut novel.” – Christian Science Monitor

EDITIONS:

US Hardcover: Other Press

US Paperback: Penguin

Italy: Piemme Edizioni

Germany: Hoffmann Und Campe

Israel: Kinneret Zmora

Taiwan: Locus

China: Horizons