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