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Towelhead

Name: Towelhead
Author: Alicia Erian

by Alicia Erian

Literary FictionThriller

2005

Sent to live with her strict Lebanese father in Texas upon the outbreak of the Gulf War, Arab-American teen Jasira endures racial taunts from her new classmates and enters into a dangerously exploitative relationship with a bigoted Army reservist.

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