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Birds of Paradise: A Novel
Birds of Paradise: A Novel | Diana Abu-Jaber
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A full-course meal, a rich, complex and memorable story that will leave you lingering gratefully at [Abu-Jabers] table.Ron Charles, Washington Post At thirteen, Felice Muir ran away from home to punish herself for some horrible thing she had doneleaving a hole in the hearts of her pastry-chef mother, her real estate attorney father, and her foodie-entrepreneurial brother. After five years of scrounging for food, drugs, and shelter on Miami Beach, Felice is now turning eighteen, and she and the family she left behind must reckon with the consequences of her actionsand make life-affirming choices about what matters to them most, now and in the future.
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CrowCAH
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Cinfhen 👍🏻 6y
TrishB Well done 👍🏻 6y
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KarenUK
Birds of Paradise: A Novel | Diana Abu-Jaber
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#winterwonderland #birdofparadise
A popular choice for book clubs in my area, set locally to me and by a local author (she lives here in Fort Lauderdale, my home away from home)....😎🌴
This is a family story, full of revelations, that reveal themselves as a hurricane ominously approaches. And the writing is beautiful 👍💕

Cinfhen Ooooh!!!! My interest has been peaked #stacked 6y
AlaMich That beach!! It‘s 16° here!!???? 6y
KarenUK @AlaMich I hate to tell you, it‘s what we consider a cool morning here today at 67! There will be Floridians in scarves and woolly hats! 😂🤦‍♀️❄️ 6y
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TrishB 67 cold ! 6y
AlaMich @KarenUK Do you know what I would give for 67?!? 6y
KarenUK The local tv weather presenters call anything under 75 a “cooler” day 🤦‍♀️ @TrishB @AlaMich 6y
AlaMich @KarenUK 🙄🙄🙄 6y
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HardcoverHarlot
Birds of Paradise: A Novel | Diana Abu-Jaber
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This took me forever to get into, but I'm glad I stuck with it. Heartbreaking but beautiful. What gorgeous language. And never read this on an empty stomach.

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HardcoverHarlot
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I'm in it, and I like it, but damn it's depressing. No more depressing than what I usually read, really, but it's hitting me harder for some reason. It's making it tough to finish!!

DebinHawaii I have loved her other books but have not been able to get started with this one for some reason. 8y
PenguinInFlight She spoke to my modern literature class when I was in college, as she grew up quite close to my college. We read Arabian Jazz. She was brilliant and so nice! 8y
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HardcoverHarlot
Birds of Paradise: A Novel | Diana Abu-Jaber

I'm in it, and I like it, but damn it's depressing. No more depressing than what I usually read, really, but it's hitting me harder for some reason. It's making it tough to finish!!

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HardcoverHarlot
Birds of Paradise: A Novel | Diana Abu-Jaber

I'm in it, and I like it, but damn it's depressing. No more depressing than what I usually read, really, but it's hitting me harder for some reason. It's making it tough to finish!!