Halaby's post-9/11 novel follows Jassim and Salwa, an affluent, secular Jordanian couple in Tucson whose lives unravel as FBI suspicion, workplace paranoia, and anti-Arab racism close in.
A precise case study of the "forever suspect" condition, threaded with Arab folktale: Islamophobia as an atmosphere, not just an event.
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