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Who Wants To Be Greek?: Bilingual Learning Edition: English and Modern Greek
Paperback
Publisher Price: $21.99
Publisher: Carrier Press
Published: Jun 24 2026
Pages: 438
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A beloved coming-of-age story, now in two languages.
At almost eighteen, Giorgos Balaskapoulos has everything but an answer. In Tarpon Springs, Florida, the sponge-diving capital of the world, his Greek-American family owns the boats, the shops, and half the restaurants on the dock. Everyone is certain of who they are. Everyone but Giorgos.
His parents are gone. His fierce grandmother Lenka now runs the house, insisting his future lies at sea, married to a nice Greek girl. Then an American girl walks into his uncle's shop to buy a simple wooden cross, and the careful order of Giorgos's world begins to shift.
This Bilingual Learning Edition pairs the complete novel with Modern Greek and easy phonetic guides, so you can hear the language as you read the story. Each passage appears first in English, then in Greek, with pronunciation built right into the text. It is a gentle, immersive way to learn Greek the way a child first does: through a story worth returning to.
Warm, funny, and deeply felt, Who Wants To Be Greek? is a love letter to heritage, faith, and family, and to one of America's most singular Greek communities. For readers who treasured the heart of My Big Fat Greek Wedding and the cultural warmth of Adriana Trigiani and Victoria Hislop, and for anyone who has ever wanted to learn Greek.
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