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Alligator

Alligator

Alzayat, Dima

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ISBN10: 1937512894
ISBN13: 9781937512897
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
Published: May 29 2020
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 7.40
Language: English
The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat's collection are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman performing burial rites for her brother in Ghusl, or a great-aunt struggling to explain cultural identity to her niece in Once We Were Syrians.

Alzayat's stories are rich and relatable, chronicling a sense of displacement through everyday scenarios. There is the intern in pre-#MeToo Hollywood of Only Those Who Struggle Succeed, the New York City children on the lookout for a place to play on the heels of Etan Patz's kidnapping in Disappearance, and the dangerous women of Daughters of Manāt who struggle to assert their independence.

The title story, Alligator, is a masterpiece of historical reconstruction and intergenerational trauma, told in an epistolary format through social media posts, newspaper clippings, and testimonials, that starts with the true story of the lynching of a Syrian immigrant couple by law officers in small-town Florida. Placed in a wider context of U.S. racial violence, the extrajudicial deaths, and what happens to the couple's children and their children's children in the years after, challenges the demands of American assimilation and its limits.

Alligator and Other Stories is haunting, spellbinding, and unforgettable, while marking Dima Alzayat's arrival as a tremendously gifted new talent.

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