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020			_a9780061744679 (pbk)
050			_aPR9570 .U546 _bG231 2009
100			_aGargash, Maha
245			_aThe Sand Fish : _ba novel from Dubai / _cMaha Gargash.
250			_aFirst Edition.
260			_aNew York: _bHarperCollins Publishers, _c2009.
300			_a361 Pages: _bill; _c20 cm.
520			_aComing 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.
650			_aWomen _vFiction. _xSocial conditions _zUnited Arab Emirates
650			_aYoung women _vFiction. _xSocial life and customs
651			_aUnited Arab Emirates _vFiction. _xHistory _y20th century
655			_aFiction.
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