An epoch adventure of an immigrant family arriving in a strange land. . . . A page-turning classic. Edward Coll, Alfred UniversityRezak re-creates, in novel form, detailed genealogical accounts and emigrations by his Arab and British forebears who share values of ambition, hard work, devotion to family and education. James A. Jacobs, author of Transgressions: A NovelBorn of a Palestinian father and a British mother, Rezak has always been intrigued by the different worlds from which his parents came. His father s ancestors were highwaymen on the Arabian Peninsula in the eighteenth century. They sparred unsuccessfully with ruling Ottoman Turks and escaped with their families to America. His mother s parents were sent separately from Great Britain into indentured servitude in Canada, alone at the ages of ten and sixteen. They worked off their servitude, met, married, and moved to New York State. In The Arab and the Brit, a memoir that spans multiple generations and countries, Rezak...

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