Despite her exotic-sounding name, Diana Abu-Jaber grew up in Syracuse, in upstate New York, the daughter of an American mother and a Jordanian father. There in the kitchen of a food-obsessed family, Diana and her sisters were taught the ple...
In a memoir about the joys and difficulties of straddling two cultures, the author of Arabian Jazz describes her life in upstate New York with an extended Arab and American family, her family's move "home" to Jordan, and her return to the U...