Towelhead

Description:

Sent to live with her strict Lebanese father in Texas upon the outbreak of the Gulf War, Arab-American teen Jasira endures racial taunts from her new classmates and enters into a dangerously exploitative relationship with a bigoted Army reservist.

subjects: Lebanese Americans,  Teenage girls,  Arab Americans,  Children of immigrants,  Fiction,  Fathers and daughters,  Children of divorced parents,  Conflict of generations,  Suburban life,  Adolescentes,  Roman,  Pères et filles,  Fathers and daughters, fiction,  Fiction, sagas,  United states, social life and customs, fiction,  Fiction, coming of age,  Fiction, family life, general