{"product_id":"from-baghdad-to-brooklyn-growing-up-in-a-jewish-arabic-family-in-midcentury-america-9781566891745","title":"From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\" Marshall] understands that the neighborhoods and cities that no longer exist can be conjured by memory and reanimated by art.\"--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Born in Brooklyn of Arabic\/Jewish heritage, Marshall may represent the keynote, most critical multicultural mixture of our time.\"--Naomi Shihab Nye, \u003ci\u003eHungry Mind Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by the posthumous discovery of letters written by his father but never mailed, Jack Marshall's memoir is both a moving story of a writer's artistic coming-of-age and a lush, lyrical recollection of a childhood spent in Brooklyn's Arabic-speaking Jewish community. Born in 1936 to an Iraqi father and Syrian mother who had immigrated to the United States, Marshall grew up in the hardworking Sephardic community--enveloped in an extended family that spoke little English, no Yiddish, and whose way of life owed more to their Middle Eastern homelands than to European Jewish traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the sights, sounds, and tastes of midcentury New York leap off the page, Marshall beautifully evokes the magic of youth and discovery. From playing \"running bases\" in the Brooklyn streets to making egg creams at Coney Island, from his mother's rich kibbeh and baklava to the vast world revealed in the books of the New York Public Library, from the pleasures of music to the mysteries contained under a microscope, Marshall's story is as enduring as it is original. And before he sets sail for Africa as a seaman on a Norwegian freighter, Marshall has, through his negotiation of language, culture, family strife, and issues of education, faith, and politics, shined a light upon the possibilities of our collective future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA critically acclaimed poet, \u003cb\u003eJack Marshall\u003c\/b\u003e has received a PEN Center USA West Award, two Bay Area Book Reviewers awards, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coffee House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781566891745\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.12w x 0.74d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/18\/2005 pg. 193\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2005 pg. 1962\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2005 pg. 721\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2006 pg. 69\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jack Marshall","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38351445098677,"sku":"9781566891745","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b3894c28-1755-4fa3-978b-0d127aa61824.jpg?v=1611648377","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/from-baghdad-to-brooklyn-growing-up-in-a-jewish-arabic-family-in-midcentury-america-9781566891745","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}