Our book recommendation of the month is Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home, her first published, remarkable debut and award-winning fiction novel. That’s what was happening to me then, but instead of airplane sounds, I was missing a hundred different things from “home”, and the sad part was, I was starting to forget what they were and where home really was. I had a friend who once lived by the airport, and when she moved she couldn’t stand the absence of airplane sounds. What exactly was daylight saving time? And did it mean I had to stay at school an extra hour? What was a tag sale? Why would anyone want to buy a tag? What was homecoming? Was it something political, because everyone was asking me to vote for a Queen? What was Memorial Day? Veterans Day? Why were there so many special days? Where was the call to prayer? I didn’t hear it anywhere. Why were there so many commercials on TV? In Kuwait and Egypt there was a commercial segment and you could opt not to watch it.
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