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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: skin and its girl
    sub title: a novel
  name:
    name part: Cypher, Sarah
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Queer fiction.
  genre: LGBTQ+ fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 335 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great aunt's secrets in this sweeping debut, a family saga confronting questions of sexual identity, exile, and lineage. In a Pacific Northwest hospital far from the Rummani family's ancestral home in Palestine, the heart of a stillborn baby begins to beat and her skin turns a vibrant, permanent cobalt blue. On the same day, the Rummanis' centuries-old soap factory in Nablus is destroyed in an air strike. The family matriarch and keeper of all Rummani lore, Aunt Nuha, believes that the blue girl embodies their sacred history, harkening to a time when the Rummanis were among the wealthiest soapmakers and their blue soap was a symbol of a legendary love. Decades later, Betty returns to her Aunt Nuha's gravestone, faced with a difficult decision. Should she stay in the only country she's every known or should she follow her heart for the woman she loves, perpetuating her family's cycle of exile? Betty finds her answer in partially translated notebooks that reveal her aunt's complex life and struggle with her own sexuality, which Nuha hid to help the family emigrate to the United States. But as Betty soon discovers, her aunt hid much more than that. The Skin and Its Girl is a searing, poetic tale about desire and identity and a provocative exploration of how we let stories divide, unite and define us, and even wield the power to restore a broken family. Sarah Cypher is that rare debut novelist who writes with the mastery and flair of a seasoned storyteller.
  note: Sarah Cypher.
  subject:
    topic: Palestinian Americans
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Great-aunts
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Identity (Psychology)
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Soap
    geographic: Palestine
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Lesbians
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Queer women
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Northwest, Pacific
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PS3603.Y67 S57 2023
  classification: 813/.6
  identifier: 9780593499535
  identifier: 0593499530
  identifier: 9780593499542
  identifier: 2022038974
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220829
    record change date: 20230623162417.6
    record identifier: in00004725159