 | Bilal's Bread
Sulayman X
After the execution of their father and fleeing the brutality of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the surviving members of the Kurdish Abu family have settled in the United States, where they make their living supplying bread to restaurants and shops in the Little Italy section of Kansas City, Mo. Now the family patriarch, Salim, the eldest brother, has been deeply damaged by the torture he suffered at the hands of the Iraqi police, and his psychotic rages directed at his younger brother, Bilal, and sister, Fatima, are becoming increasingly violent. The youngest at only16, Bilal holds the family secrets close, revealing nothing, and instead directs his rage onto his own body by cutting himself with razor blades and burning himself with matches. His conflict is deepened as his sexual awakening leads him toward a deeper relationship with his best friend, Muhammad. Then, on September 11, 2001, Bilal's world is forever changed, when the only country he has ever known turns on him. A remarkable story of the power of the individual voice to banish fear and isolation, Bilal's Bread distills many of our most divisive issues into a richly rewarding evocation of the immigrant experience in America's heartland. (Alyson)
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