This loosely connected set of short stories follows the Matters, an Arab-American family navigating life across both continents and generations. A boy desperate to feed his starving family hauls a stolen chandelier over a snowy mountain in Lebanon during World War I; a young Mexican nurse and her lover wind their way through eighteenth-century California missions; against the backdrop of the September 11 attacks, an Arab-American man is thrown from a bus. With a poet's ear and a historian's keen eye for detail, Orfalea offers readers beautifully crafted stories filled with flawed yet irresistible characters, rendered with great tenderness and aching complexity.

The Man Who Guarded the Bomb: Stories (Hardcover)

By Gregory Orfalea

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9780815609773
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Syracuse University Press, 4/2010

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