12 Best contemporary books like Her First Palestinian by Saeed Teebi

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Her First Palestinian

By: Saeed Teebi

4.37

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Elegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in c…

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1. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

Similar categories in Mosab Abu Toha's Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza book and Saeed Teebi's Her First Palestinian

  • adult
  • contemporary
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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2. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

By: Noor Hindi

4.52

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more

Similar categories in Noor Hindi's Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. book and Saeed Teebi's Her First Palestinian

  • adult
"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

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3. If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

By: Noor Naga

3.92

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobr… read more

Similar categories in Noor Naga's If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English book and Saeed Teebi's Her First Palestinian

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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4. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

Similar categories in Adania Shibli's Minor Detail book and Saeed Teebi's Her First Palestinian

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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5. Chrysalis

By: Anuja Varghese

3.96

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Canadian Governor General's Literary for Fiction Genre-blending stories of transfo… read more

Similar categories in Anuja Varghese's Chrysalis book and Saeed Teebi's Her First Palestinian

  • canada
  • canadian literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
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6. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

Similar categories in Téa Mutonji's Shut Up You're Pretty book and Saeed Teebi's Her First Palestinian

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

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7. Rifqa

By: Mohammed El-Kurd

4.66

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more

Similar categories in Mohammed El-Kurd's Rifqa book and Saeed Teebi's Her First Palestinian

  • adult
  • contemporary
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."

-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa

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8. The Future

By: Catherine Leroux

3.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Leroux's The Future book and Saeed Teebi's Her First Palestinian

  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

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9. Hotline

By: Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more

Similar categories in Dimitri Nasrallah's Hotline book and Saeed Teebi's Her First Palestinian

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • canadian literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"

-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

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10. Bad Cree

By: Jessica Johns

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Johns's Bad Cree book and Saeed Teebi's Her First Palestinian

  • fiction
  • adult
  • canada
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"

-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

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11. All the Colour in the World

By: C.S. Richardson

3.74

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The story of the restorative power of art in one man's life, set against the sweep of the twentieth… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Richardson's All the Colour in the World book and Saeed Teebi's Her First Palestinian

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • canadian literature
  • fiction
  • adult
Cover of Her First Palestinian by Saeed Teebi

12. Her First Palestinian

By: Saeed Teebi

4.37

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Elegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in c… read more

Similar categories in Saeed Teebi's Her First Palestinian book and Saeed Teebi's Her First Palestinian

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • literature
  • canadian literature
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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13. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

Similar categories in Christina Wong's Denison Avenue book and Saeed Teebi's Her First Palestinian

  • adult fiction
  • canada
  • canadian literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. The Story of Us

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bo… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Hernandez's The Story of Us book and Saeed Teebi's Her First Palestinian

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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15. We Meant Well

By: Erum Shazia Hasan

4.05

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A propulsive debut that grapples with timely questions about what it means to be charitable, who de… read more

Similar categories in Erum Shazia Hasan's We Meant Well book and Saeed Teebi's Her First Palestinian

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom

By: Ahed Tamimi

4.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more

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17. Behind You

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.04

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

As terror grips a city, a young girl faces danger closer to home and chilling memories that last a … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Hernandez's Behind You book and Saeed Teebi's Her First Palestinian

  • literature
  • fiction
  • adult
  • canada
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18. A Minor Chorus

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's A Minor Chorus book and Saeed Teebi's Her First Palestinian

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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19. Coexistence: Stories

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.39

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories book and Saeed Teebi's Her First Palestinian

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

Cover of An Ordinary Violence by Adriana Chartrand

20. An Ordinary Violence

By: Adriana Chartrand

3.05

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A chilling horror novel about a young Indigenous woman haunted by the oppressive legacies of coloni… read more

Similar categories in Adriana Chartrand's An Ordinary Violence book and Saeed Teebi's Her First Palestinian

  • fiction
  • adult
  • canada
"Residents asked for the roads to be repaved, buildings repaired, outdoor lights installed and nice public spaces built. The city responded with the latest project: an almost comically out of place "e…"

-Adriana Chartrand, An Ordinary Violence

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21. Bird Suit

By: Sydney Hegele

4.48

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A tourist town folk tale of stifled ambition, love, loss, and the bird women who live beneath the l… read more

Similar categories in Sydney Hegele's Bird Suit book and Saeed Teebi's Her First Palestinian

  • fiction
  • canada

17 Top fiction books like Her First Palestinian by Saeed Teebi

Transform Your Habits

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

Noor Naga

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Minor Detail

Adania Shibli

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Chrysalis

Anuja Varghese

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

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17 must-read fiction books like A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt

Transform Your Habits

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

Noor Naga

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Future

Catherine Leroux

3.32

Transform Your Habits

Jonny Appleseed

Joshua Whitehead

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Sleeping Car Porter

Suzette Mayr

3.46

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