Description
xMax doesn't remember his mother, who was murdered by burglars before
they emigrated from Beirut to New Jersey. He lives with his father,
Rasheed, who is enamored of his concept of American culture - baseball
and barbeques - and tries to shed his Lebanese heritage completely.
"When we are in America," Reed (for he goes by Reed in America, not
Rasheed) tells Max, "we are Americans."
Rasheed has a singular purpose in life: to provide
Max with a joyful childhood. He showers his son with gifts out of a
belief that he deserves all and is capable of anything. Max wants
nothing more than to convince his father that he is a successful single
parent. The only thing that can disrupt their peaceful universe is the
truth - which it does, with force.
When Max turns seventeen, he learns from Rasheed's
ex-girlfriend that his father has been lying to him. Max's understanding
of the world is so rocked that he is subsequently launched on an
uncertain mission to Beirut and then Paris.
Lifted by the Great Nothing is a startlingly
graceful, and often hilarious, coming-of-age story about the lengths we
go to preserve the untruths we live by. With its poignant relationships,
unsettling misadventures, and surprising love stories, it is a touching
and devastating portrait of a young man coming to terms with his
country's - and his own - violent past.
Additional Information
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