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Birds Of Paradise, September 2011
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BIRDS OF PARADISE
By: Diana Abu-Jaber

W W Norton
September 2011
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Featuring: Brian Muir; Avis Muir; Felice Muir
384 pages
ISBN: 0393064611
EAN: 9780393064612
Kindle: B005IXUDEW
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction

In the tropical paradise that is Miami, Avis and Brian Muir are still haunted by the disappearance of their ineffably beautiful daughter, Felice, who ran away when she was thirteen.

Now, after five years of modeling tattoos, skateboarding, clubbing, and sleeping in a squat house or on the beach, Felice is about to turn eighteen. Her family-Avis, an exquisitely talented pastry chef; Brian, a corporate real estate attorney; and her brother, Stanley, the proprietor of Freshly Grown, a trendy food market-will each be forced to confront their anguish, loss, and sense of betrayal.

Meanwhile, Felice must reckon with the guilty secret that drove her away, and must face her fear of losing her family and her sense of self forever.

This multilayered novel about a family that comes apart at the seams-and finds its way together again-is totally involving and deeply satisfying, a glorious feast of a book.

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