Kaan and Her Sisters by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Kaan and Her Sisters

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Kaan and Her Sisters

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Kaan and Her Sisters

by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

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A finalist for the 2024 CLMP Firecracker Award and the Arab American Book Award, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's Kaan and Her Sisters illuminates the work of grief and survival, the sordid legacies of official historical record and the liberatory practice of intimate narration. Tuffaha writes in the liminal space between languages, personifying Arabic verbs who guide the reader through a "history hurtling into the future." Kaan and Her Sisters centers character of the Arabic teacher, Miss Sahar, whose progressive displacements from Palestine and across Arab cities unfold in epistles, refashioned songs, and glimpses into the interiors of her lost home. In these disclosures, a study of time and a record of resistance to erasure emerges, and at its heart, the women who keep intergenerational memory. "Our mothers miraculous, persevering./No maps are new to the ancestors."

Book Details
Publisher:
Trio House Press
ISBN:
9781949487145
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
86
Authors:
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Published Date:
2023-07-01
Language:
English
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About Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha won the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry for Something About Living. That collection had already taken the Akron Poetry Prize and went on to win a Washington State Book Award — her second, after Water & Salt in 2018. Born in Seattle and raised in Saudi Arabia and Jordan, she translates from Arabic. Arab in Newsland is a prize-winning chapbook and Kaan and Her Sisters a Firecracker Award finalist. She earned a BA at the University of Washington and an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop, and lives in Redmond, Washington.

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