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“No loss is felt more keenly than the loss of what might have been. No nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed.”

An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine

August 3, 2022 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

In one word: Hopeful Cannonball Read Bingo Square: Cozy For a few consecutive months, I challenged my work book club to pick its book based on the heritage month (she says, realizing how smug she sounds) and thus, I read this book in April for Arab American Heritage Month. I was wholly unfamiliar with the author but excited to give something international a try. After selecting it for the club, I realized that my public library didn’t have a copy so I put one on […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: an unnecessary woman, arab american heritage month, Beirut, book about books, cbr14bingo, Middle East, national book award finalist, Rabih Alameddine

cheerbrarian's CBR14 Review No:24 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: an unnecessary woman, arab american heritage month, Beirut, book about books, cbr14bingo, Middle East, national book award finalist, Rabih Alameddine ·
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You could say I was thinking of other things when I shampooed my hair blue, and two glasses of red win didn’t help my concentration.

An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine

July 1, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

A truly wonderful novel that rewards a patient reader. This novel begins us with Alia accidentally dying her hair with coloring shampoo because she “likes a good lather” and uses way more than recommended. She tells us that she is 72, living in Beirut, and that because her hair is yellowish/white, she wanted a little more white, which gave over to blue by accident. She decides that older women like her like bluish hair tints because with her diminished eyesight, it appears not blue at […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: an unnecessary woman, Rabih Alameddine

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:356 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: an unnecessary woman, Rabih Alameddine ·
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The Importance of Stories

An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine

December 6, 2019 by The Chancellor Leave a Comment

An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine My rating: 5 of 5 stars “An Unnecessary Woman” is the stream-of-consciousness story of Aaliyah. We first meet in her twilight years. She’s old enough to tell us the raucous history of Lebanon while not so old that there’s no new adventures on her horizon. She was married off young to a guy who didn’t know how to be a husband. He divorces her and she ends up keeping the apartment. In the interim she works in a bookstore […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Rabih Alameddine

The Chancellor's CBR11 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Rabih Alameddine ·
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