Lifted by the great nothing

Description:

"At the center of this offbeat, big-hearted, and often dark world are a [Lebanese-American] son and his father trying to live normal lives by desperately keeping buried anything that identifies them as 'other.' With its poignant relationships, surprising love stories, and unsettling misadventures, [this book] is a ... portrait of a young man coming to terms with his country's--and his own--violent past"--

subjects: Family secrets,  Lebanese Americans,  Fiction,  Fathers and sons,  History,  Fiction, family life,  Fathers and sons, fiction,  Lebanon, history, civil war, 1975-1990, fiction,  Fiction, general,  New jersey, fiction

Places: Lebanon

Times: Civil War, 1975-1990