{"product_id":"9780060504045","title":"19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Tell me how to live so many lives at once ...\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFowzi, who beats everyone at dominoes; Ibtisam, who wanted to be a doctor; Abu Mahmoud, who knows every eggplant and peach in his West Bank garden; mysterious Uncle Mohammed, who moved to the mountain; a girl in a red sweater dangling a book bag; children in velvet dresses who haunt the candy bowl at the party; Baba Kamalyari, age 71; Mr. Dajani and his swans; Sitti Khadra, who never lost her peace inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaybe they have something to tell us.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNaomi Shihab Nye has been writing about being Arab-American, about Jerusalem, about the West Bank, about family all her life. These new and collected poems of the Middle East — sixty in all — appear together here for the first time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021635666160,"sku":"9780060504045","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780060504045_p0.jpg?v=1763619629","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780060504045","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}