Alligator and Other Stories 9781509883035 Have you ever wanted to

Have you ever wanted to be an adventurer like Bear Grylls

conspicuous and 'showy' plants of the region

scare Stinkbeard and his pet croc away

but elephants help her and the duiker find their way back to her grandfather

Alligator and Other Stories 9781509883035 Have you ever wanted toIn Alligator and Other Stories, Dima Alzayat captures luminously how it feels to be 'other': as a Syrian, as an Arab, as an immigrant, as a woman. Each one of the nine stories collected here is a snapshot of those moments when unusual circumstances suddenly distinguish us from our neighbors, when our difference is thrown into relief. Here are 'dangerous' women transgressing, missing children in 1970s New York, a family who were once Syrian but have