The Resource A good country : a novel, Laleh Khadivi
A good country : a novel, Laleh Khadivi
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The item A good country : a novel, Laleh Khadivi represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Colby College Libraries.
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- Summary
- " Laguna Beach, California, 2009. Alireza Courdee, a fourteen-year-old straight-A student and chemistry whiz, takes his first hit of pot. In as long as it takes to inhale and exhale, he is transformed from the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants into a happy-go-lucky stoner. He loses his virginity, takes up surfing, and sneaks away to all-night raves. For the first time, Reza--now Rez--feels like an American teen. Life is smooth; even lying to his strict father comes easily. But then he changes again, falling out with the bad boy surfers and in with a group of kids more awake to the world around them, who share his background, and whose ideas fill him with a very different sense of purpose. Within a year, Reza and two friends are making their way to Syria to join in the fight. Timely, nuanced, and emotionally forceful, A Good Country is a gorgeous meditation on modern life, religious radicalization, and a young man caught among vastly different worlds. What we are left with at the dramatic end is not an assessment of good or evil, east versus west, but a lingering question that applies to all souls: Does a person decide how to live, or is their life decided for them? "--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- A good country : a novel
- Title
- A good country
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Laleh Khadivi
- Subject
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- Bildungsromans
- Bildungsromans
- Bildungsromans
- California -- Laguna Beach
- Civil War (Syria : 2011-)
- Coming of age -- Fiction
- FICTION / Coming of Age
- FICTION / Coming of Age
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Literary
- Fiction
- Fiction
- 2011
- Iranian American teenagers
- Iranian American teenagers -- Fiction
- Iranian Americans
- Iranian Americans -- Fiction
- Laguna Beach (Calif.) -- Fiction
- Radicalization
- Radicalization -- Fiction
- Syria
- Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Fiction
- History
- Bildungsromans
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- " Laguna Beach, California, 2009. Alireza Courdee, a fourteen-year-old straight-A student and chemistry whiz, takes his first hit of pot. In as long as it takes to inhale and exhale, he is transformed from the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants into a happy-go-lucky stoner. He loses his virginity, takes up surfing, and sneaks away to all-night raves. For the first time, Reza--now Rez--feels like an American teen. Life is smooth; even lying to his strict father comes easily. But then he changes again, falling out with the bad boy surfers and in with a group of kids more awake to the world around them, who share his background, and whose ideas fill him with a very different sense of purpose. Within a year, Reza and two friends are making their way to Syria to join in the fight. Timely, nuanced, and emotionally forceful, A Good Country is a gorgeous meditation on modern life, religious radicalization, and a young man caught among vastly different worlds. What we are left with at the dramatic end is not an assessment of good or evil, east versus west, but a lingering question that applies to all souls: Does a person decide how to live, or is their life decided for them? "--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Khadivi, Laleh,
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Civil War (Syria : 2011-)
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Coming of Age
- Iranian American teenagers
- Iranian Americans
- Radicalization
- Laguna Beach (Calif.)
- Syria
- FICTION / Coming of Age
- FICTION / Literary
- Bildungsromans
- Coming of age
- Iranian American teenagers
- Iranian Americans
- Radicalization
- California
- Syria
- Label
- A good country : a novel, Laleh Khadivi
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 957022423
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 239 pages
- Isbn
- 9781632865847
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2016050042
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)957022423
- Label
- A good country : a novel, Laleh Khadivi
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 957022423
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 239 pages
- Isbn
- 9781632865847
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2016050042
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)957022423
Subject
- Bildungsromans
- Bildungsromans
- Bildungsromans
- California -- Laguna Beach
- Civil War (Syria : 2011-)
- Coming of age -- Fiction
- FICTION / Coming of Age
- FICTION / Coming of Age
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Literary
- Fiction
- Fiction
- 2011
- Iranian American teenagers
- Iranian American teenagers -- Fiction
- Iranian Americans
- Iranian Americans -- Fiction
- Laguna Beach (Calif.) -- Fiction
- Radicalization
- Radicalization -- Fiction
- Syria
- Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Fiction
- History
- Bildungsromans
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