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1-56689-174-4
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978-1-56689-174-5
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6 x 9
256 pages
8 Black & White Photographs
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From Baghdad to Brooklyn
A memoir by Jack Marshall

“Accomplished and expressive language permeates this coming-of-age memoir.”— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Jack Marshall, born in 1936 to an Iraqi father and Syrian mother who had immigrated to the United States during the depression era, grew up in Brooklyn's Sephardic community . Inspired by the posthumous discovery of letters written by his father but never mailed and colored equally by Arabic culture, Jewish tradition, and a thriving American metropolis, Marshall's memoir is a lyrical story of an era, a city, a little-known community, and an artist's coming-of-age. As Marshall evokes the magic of youth and discovery, he creates a moving tribute to the power of literature and its place in furthering his negotiation of language, culture, family strife, and issues of education, faith, and politics.

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