Dearborn Zeineddine Ghassan
Dearborn Zeineddine Ghassan Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine's debut collection examines the diverse range and complexities of the Arab American community in Dearborn, Michigan. Tensions…
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Dearborn Zeineddine Ghassan
Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine's debut collection examines the diverse range and complexities of the Arab American community in Dearborn, Michigan. Tensions heighten within a close-knit group of couples when a mysterious man begins to frequent the local gym pool, dressed in Speedos printed with nostalgic images of Lebanon. In ten tragicomic stories, Zeineddine explores themes of identity, generational conflicts, war trauma, migration, sexuality, queerness, home and belonging, and more.In Dearborn, a father teaches his son how to cheat the IRS and hide their cash earnings inside of frozen chickens.
And a failed stage actor attempts to drive a young Lebanese man with ambitions of becoming a Hollywood action hero to LA, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have other plans.By turns wildly funny, incisive, and deeply moving,
Dearborn Zeineddine Ghassan