I, the Divine
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I, the Divine

A Novel in First Chapters

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eBook - ePub

I, the Divine

A Novel in First Chapters

About this book

One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels

Named after the "divine" Sarah Bernhardt, red-haired Sarah Nour El-Din is "wonderful, irresistibly unique, funny, and amazing," raves Amy Tan. Determined to make of her life a work of art, she tries to tell her story, sometimes casting it as a memoir, sometimes a novel, always fascinatingly incomplete.

"Alameddine's new novel unfolds like a secret... creating a tale...humorous and heartbreaking and always real" ( Los Angeles Times). "[W]ith each new approach, [Sarah] sheds another layer of her pretension, revealing another truth about her humanity" ( San Francisco Weekly). Raised in a hybrid family shaped by divorce and remarriage, and by Beirut in wartime, Sarah finds a fragile peace in self-imposed exile in the United States. Her extraordinary dignity is supported by a best friend, a grown-up son, occasional sensual pleasures, and her determination to tell her own story. "Like her narrative, [Sarah's] life is broken and fragmented. [But] the bright, strange, often startling pieces...are moving and memorable" ( Boston Globe). Reading group guide included.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Half Title
  6. Chapter one: My grandfather named...
  7. Chapter One: At the age...
  8. Chapter One: Nineteen seventy-three was...
  9. Chapter 1: At the age...
  10. CHAPTER I: I was in...
  11. Half and Half: A Memoir
  12. Dedication
  13. A Memoir's Cast
  14. Chapter One-The Beginning
  15. Chapter 1: What I recall...
  16. Premier Chapitre: Le commencement
  17. CHAPTER ONE: My Mother and I
  18. Chapter one: This, I learned...
  19. One: The last time...
  20. CHAPTER ONE: On a Beach
  21. CHAPTER ONE: The Divine Sarah
  22. Chapter One: Family Asunder
  23. I, The Divine
  24. I, the Divine: A Memoir by Sarah Nour el-Din
  25. Dedication
  26. Chapter 1--: My grandfather, Hammoud...
  27. 1---: The water stands...
  28. The People in My Life
  29. Chapter 1: Sarah wakes up...
  30. Chapter One: Here and There
  31. Chapter One: David and I
  32. Prologue
  33. Marsyas Flayed
  34. Chapter one: On an exceptionally...
  35. ONE: I want to...
  36. Chapter One: When my father...
  37. 1-: I have a...
  38. Chapter One: Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, I Am My Mother After All
  39. Chapter one: Had I known...
  40. INTRODUCTION: I drove my...
  41. Chapter One: A Serial Killer in Our Midst
  42. Chapter One: One of my...
  43. Around an Empty Grave: A Novel
  44. Epigraph
  45. Chapter One: Mustapha usually woke...
  46. Premier Chapitre: Il faisait chaud...
  47. Chapter One: Spilt Wine
  48. The Fall by Sarah Nour el-Din
  49. Epigraph
  50. Chapter One: She wakes up...
  51. CHAPTER ONE: That Which Is Written
  52. ON RUNNING
  53. CHAPTER ONE: Faint
  54. 1- Inversion
  55. ONE: On a rusty...
  56. CHAPTER ONE: A Day in New York
  57. Starbucks as Metaphor
  58. Chapter One: Mark Twain said...
  59. CHAPTER ONE: Our novel opens...
  60. Introduction: I sat down...
  61. Acknowledgments
  62. Praise
  63. Copyright