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Bloomsbury
June 2015
On Sale: May 19, 2015
320 pages
ISBN: 1632860589
EAN: 9781632860583
Kindle: B00S849B8C
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Max doesn't remember his mother, who was murdered by
burglars before they emigrated from Beirut to New Jersey. He
lives with his father, Rasheed, who is enamored of his
concept of American culture--baseball and barbeques--and
tries to shed his Lebanese heritage completely. "When we are
in America," Reed (for he goes by Reed in America, not
Rasheed) tells Max, "we are Americans."
Rasheed has a
singular purpose in life: to provide Max with a joyful
childhood. He showers his son with gifts out of a belief
that he deserves all and is capable of anything. Max wants
nothing more than to convince his father that he is a
successful single parent. The only thing that can disrupt
their peaceful universe is the truth--which it does, with
force.
When Max turns seventeen, he learns from
Rasheed's ex-girlfriend that his father has been lying to
him. Max's understanding of the world is so rocked that he
is subsequently launched on an uncertain mission to Beirut
and then Paris.
Lifted by the Great Nothing is
a startlingly graceful, and often hilarious, coming-of-age
story about the lengths we go to preserve the untruths we
live by. With its poignant relationships, unsettling
misadventures, and surprising love stories, it is a touching
and devastating portrait of a young man coming to terms with
his country's--and his own--violent past.
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