TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gargash, Maha
TI  - The Sand Fish: a novel from Dubai 
SN  - 9780061744679 (pbk)
AV  - PR9570 .U546 G231 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - Women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - United Arab Emirates
KW  - Young women
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
N2  - Coming of age in the 1950s, seventeen-year-old Noora is unlike other women of the sun-battered mountains at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Though she shares their poverty and, like them, bears life's hardships without complaint, she is also fiery and independent. Following the death of her mother and her father's descent into dazed madness, Noora flees the threat of an arranged marriage, only to be driven back to her unwanted fate by disappointment and heartbreak. As the third wife to a rich, much older man, Noora struggles to adjust to her new home by the sea, thinking of herself as a sand fish--the desert lizard she observed in the mountains, which, when stuck in the wrong place and desperate to escape, smashed itself again and again into unyielding rocks. But then a light is shone into her miserable darkness, resulting in an unexpected passion, a shocking indiscretion, and a secret that could jeopardize Noora's life
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