My New American Life
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While working for an idealistic college professor, twenty-six-year old Lula, an Albanian trying to make a better life for herself in America, finds her life taking a complicated turn when her Albanian "brothers" return, in a novel set in the aftermath of 9/11.
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Title on dust jacket: My new American life : a novel
Imprint:
New York - Harper
Pages:
306
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
0061713767, 9780061713767
Language:
English
Statement of responsibility:
Francine Prose
Characteristics:
306 p. ;,24 cm.
Author (Original Script):
Prose, Francine
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Add a Comment26 yr old Albanian Lula's new Amer life when she's hired as nanny to 17 yr old Zeke. His Dad helps her with immigration issues and she deals with her own issues.
"Francine Prose's 16th book of fiction, My New American Life, takes an unusually lighthearted approach to the immigrant novel. Prose, a native New Yorker, has produced a social satire about post-9/11 America as seen through the eyes of a scrappy 26-year-old Albanian orphan named Lula. Coming from a paranoid culture of duplicity and larceny, "the most extreme and crazy Communist society in Europe," Lula lies her way to New York, "the so-called land of opportunity," on a tourist visa. She finds a different sort of paranoia in Bush-Cheney America—"And yet, for all the mixed feelings shared by waiters and busboys alike, the strongest emotion everyone felt was the desire to stay here." With her visa running out, Lula lands a job as a live-in nanny in suburban New Jersey—" NPR Books We Like