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On book blog tour April 2-April 11, 2024.<\/p>\n

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SHAHRAZAD\u2019S GIFT<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

by<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Gretchen McCullough<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Contemporary Fiction \/ Linked Short Stories \/ Humor<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Publisher: Cune Press<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Date of Publication: February 20, 2024<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Number of Pages: 198 pages\u202f<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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$\"\"$ ABOUT THE BOOK: <\/strong>Shahrazad\u2019s Gift<\/em> is a collection of linked short stories set in contemporary Cairo\u2014magical, absurd and humorous. The author focuses on the off-beat, little-known stories, far from CNN news: a Swedish belly dancer who taps into the Oriental fantasies of her clientele; a Japanese woman studying Arabic, driven mad by the noise and chaos of the city; a frustrated Egyptian housewife who becomes obsessed by the activities of her Western gay neighbor; an American journalist who covered the civil war in Beirut who finds friendship with her Egyptian dentist. We also meet the two protagonists of McCullough’s Confessions of a Knight Errant<\/em>, before their escapades in that story. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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These stories are told in the tradition of A Thousand and One Nights<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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$\"\"$ ABOUT THE AUTHOR:<\/strong> Gretchen McCullough was raised in Harlingen Texas. After graduating from Brown University in 1984, she taught in Egypt, Turkey, and Japan. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama and was awarded a teaching Fulbright to Syria from 1997-1999. Her stories, essays and reviews have appeared in The Barcelona Review<\/em>, Archipelago<\/em>, National Public Radio<\/em>, Story South<\/em>, Guernica<\/em>, The Common<\/em>, The Millions<\/em>, and the LA Review of Books<\/em>. Translations in English and Arabic have been published in: Nizwa, Banipal, Brooklyn Rail in Translation, World Literature Today <\/em>and Washington Square Review<\/em> with Mohamed Metwalli. Her bi-lingual book of short stories in English and Arabic, Three Stories From Cairo<\/em>, translated with Mohamed Metwalli, was published in July 2011 by AFAQ Publishing House, Cairo. A collection of short stories about expatriate life in Cairo, Shahrazad\u2019s Tooth<\/em>, was also published by AFAQ in 2013. Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Rhetoric and Composition at the American University in Cairo.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Website<\/a> \u25c6 Goodreads<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

American University Faculty Webpage<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Giveaway ended April 12, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n

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