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Feeling out of place in a Montana home where nobody can pronounce his name, Khosi Saqr travels to Cairo in search of his father and a connection to his heritage before discovering lessons about belonging, family, and culture.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Toutonghi, Pauls
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Crown, c2012.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Egyptian Americans > Fiction.
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Summary:	Feeling out of place in a Montana home where nobody can pronounce his name, Khosi Saqr travels to Cairo in search of his father and a connection to his heritage before discovering lessons about belonging, family, and culture.
Physical Description:	293 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:	9780307382153 030738215X
Author Notes:	Pauls Toutonghi is the Pushcart Prize winning author of the critically-acclaimed novel Red Weather . He was born in Seattle, Washington to an Egyptian father and a Latvian mother. His work has appeared in The New York Times , VQR , Sports Illustrated , Zoetrope , Glimmer Train , The Harvard Review , and One Story -- as well as online for Salon, The Rumpus, Bookslut, The Millions, and elsewhere. He is the father of twins, and teaches at Lewis and Clark College, in Portland, Oregon.