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I Love My Daily Candy!
Chocolate milk balls, black licorice, gummy bears…but today it was extra sweet: http://www.dailycandy.com/los_angeles/article/70636/Magic+Carpet+Ride July 15, 2009 Magic Carpet Ride “The Night Counter,” by Alia Yunis Little pigs and lost siblings make for decent bedtime story fodder. But the life and times of Fatima Abdullah, the madcap matriarch of Alia Yunis’s charming debut, The Night Counter, Continue reading
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THE NIGHT COUNTER A RANDOM HOUSE EDITOR’S PICK
The Night Counter is an Editor’s Pick on the Random House website. Considering the large number of books Random House publishes and my littleness in that pool, this is a good thing and a happy thing. The Night Counter will be in bookstores tomorrow inshallah. I saw it as a book for the first time Continue reading
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Review of the Night Counter From Genre Reviews
Saturday, June 27, 2009 The Night Counter-Alia Yunis The Night Counter Alia Yunis Shaye Areheart (Crown), Jul 14 2009, $24.00 ISBN: 9780307453624 Lebanese immigrant Fatima Abdullah is dying, but shows no interest in a reconciliation with her estranged husband Ibraham or for that matter with her children sprawled all over the country as she prefers Continue reading
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THE NIGHT COUNTER UPDATES: GERMANY, THE KINDLE AND MORE
As I get used to being back in L.A.—in some ways I’ve been gone more than a year and in other ways I forget that I haven’t been here for almost a year– I’d just thought I’d take a moment to do an update on what’s going on with The Night Counter, some of which Continue reading
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LIVING IN THE SOUND OF MUSIC:What Does A Small Alpine Village Have In Common With Abu Dhabi?
I’m in Obervellach in southern Austria, population 1,500, where the hills are alive with The Sound of Music—the movie that is. Everywhere you turn, you’re waiting for Julie Andrews to come twirling down the mountain or the Von Tramp children to pop out of the bright flower boxes on the Alpine homes and break into Continue reading
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The Night Counter: A Starred Review in Kirkus
The Night Counter received a starred reveiw in Kirkus Reviews this week. It leaves a tired writer so joyful she is wordless. A link to the original can be found at: http://www.aliayunis.com/press.html (It also inspired Chris Costello, the person who designed this website, and I to update the Events page on the website.) But if Continue reading
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