04756cam a2200865 4500 1941093793 TxAuBib 20250219120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781646222117 1646222113 B0CKSJLMVB Amazon 645188ed-8651-4e13-b6ee-28fa2d613f99 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10198828 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Zaher, Yasmin. The Coin [e-iNC eBook] : A Novel. Catapult, 2024. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Contemporary Romance. realistic fiction. literary fiction. Women's Fiction. gifts for women. book club books. relationships. mental health. Coming of age. Short Stories. fiction books. gifts for her. books fiction. 21st century. Pop Culture. women gifts. Friendship. psychology. infidelity. Chick Lit. Sociology. marriage. feminist. romantic. feminism. romance. culture. society. fashion. Writing. Fiction. classic. family. novels. Comedy. Modern. Essays. gender. beauty. school. Death. women. Drama. coins. Music. drugs. love. art. HTML:Finalist for the Gotham Book Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags, and strives to gain control over her body and mind The Coin’s narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory, and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed from the start. In New York, she strives to put down roots. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys, where her eccentric methods cross boundaries. She befriends a homeless swindler, and the two participate in an intercontinental scheme reselling Birkin bags. But America is stifling her—her willfulness, her sexuality, her principles. In an attempt to regain control, she becomes preoccupied with purity, cleanliness, and self-image, all while drawing her students into her obsessions. In an unforgettable denouement, her childhood memories converge with her material and existential statelessness, and the narrator unravels spectacularly. In enthralling, sensory prose, The Coin explores nature and civilization, beauty and justice, class and belonging—all while resisting easy moralizing. Provocative, wry, and inviting, The Coin marks the arrival of a major new literary voice. "[A] smart, sneering novel of capital and its consequences . . . In a spiraling, hallucinogenic plot, The Coin draws a dotted line between the narrator’s grandmother’s garden in Palestine and a splatter of excrement on New York City subway tiles; between her grandfather’s birthplace of Bisan—'now a low-income town in Israel, housing mostly Jewish families from Morocco and no Palestinians'—Stokely Carmichael and a Gucci window display appropriating the language of revolution . . . The whiplash feels intentional, funny in an absurdist way, like the narrator’s existential seesawing between jaded American consumerism and the sadness and guilt of displacement . . . The novel’s power is not in cohesion, but in chaos." —Lauren Christensen, The New York Times Book Review. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-02-19 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=645188ed-8651-4e13-b6ee-28fa2d613f99&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=645188ed-8651-4e13-b6ee-28fa2d613f99&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)