Sarah’s book launch at Kinokuniya store in Sydney
rather stay quiet about things, and just go through
want to marry her, the Lebanese community might
her own personal anxieties internally...
say bad things about her... she’s at home, she follows
the gender expectations, so doesn’t go out too much,
Well let’s get to know her – she is what she
does her homework...
describes as the “perfect Lebanese daughter...”
Now what is the perfect Lebanese daughter,
Doesn’t go out with boys...
according to her dad’s expectations, who gets
called “dictator dad” throughout this novel?
Doesn’t go out with boys, listens to her parents,
things like that.
Well a perfect Lebanese daughter, according to her
dad, is a daughter that behaves well in social
She’s feeling very tense about that though – she’s
situations, doesn’t raise her voice (a lady doesn’t
really stuck... She’s in her Lebanese family, which
raise her voice), does everything right by the
she loves, she loves her parents, but she’s also at a
Lebanese traditions, doesn’t go out too much,
Catholic Lebanese school – where all the kids are
because maybe then the Lebanese husband won’t
born to Lebanese parents, parents who came here