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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BadGirlPerk" data-source="post: 22485160" data-attributes="member: 556692"><p>Against the backdrop of the first Gulf War, Jasira Maroun is 13,  physically well developed but naïve and unable to say no. As puberty  arrives, her mother sends her from Syracuse to Houston to her curt,  up-tight, Lebanese-born father. Over the next few months, Jasira must  navigate her father's strict indifference, her discovery of sexual  pleasure, the casual racism of a neighbor boy and her classmates, the  sexual advances of the boy's father, the proffered friendship of a  pregnant neighbor, and her attraction to Thomas, an African-American  classmate whom her father forbids her to see. Things happen to her, but  can she take responsibility and control, or is tragedy inevitable?</p></blockquote><p></p>

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