Laila Halaby
Author of West of the Jordan: A Novel (Bluestreak)
Works by Laila Halaby
Associated Works
Dinarzad's Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction (2004) — Contributor — 26 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1966
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
Lebanon (birth) - Birthplace
- Lebanon
- Places of residence
- Tucson, Arizona, USA
- Education
- University of California, Los Angeles (MA - Near Eastern Languages and Culture)
Loyola Marymount University (MA - Counseling)
Washington University in St. Louis (BA) - Occupations
- novelist
poet
counselor - Organizations
- University of Arizona
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Statistics
- Works
- 4
- Also by
- 2
- Members
- 146
- Popularity
- #141,736
- Rating
- 3.3
- Reviews
- 6
- ISBNs
- 11
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My Review: I need to listen to myself. I don't like poetry, the feeling I always have of being talked at by the poet not to by the writer; and this is, make no mistake, poetry with prose's line breaks added. I relate to the lady's grief at the loss of her child and the many issues surrounding being Other in the increasingly hostile US. If you like poetry, give it a whirl, but for me it felt like many more than its two-hundred-ish pages of being told I'm defective for not "getting" the ever-so-pretty (I suppose) phrases.… (more)