One Hundred Hungers

by Lauren Camp

Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. In her Dorset Prize-winning new collection, Lauren Camp explores the lives of a first-generation Arab-American girl and her Jewish-Iraqi parent. One Hundred Hungers tells overlapping stories of food and ritual, immigration and adaptation, evoking her father's boyhood in Baghdad in the 1940s at a time when tensions began to emerge along ethnic and religious lines. She also draws upon memories of Sabbath dinners in her...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936797720
• ISBN13: 9781936797721
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.9" x 8.9"