Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow
Faiza Guene, , trans. from the French by Sarah Adams. . Harcourt, $13 (179pp) ISBN 978-0-15-603048-9
College-aged Guène was raised by Algerian immigrant parents in a Parisian housing project; in her debut novel, a French bestseller, 15-year-old Doria and her illiterate mother, having been abandoned by Doria's alcoholic father, are stuck in a Paris housing project called the Paradise. Dependent on welfare and subjected to the obligatory succession of social workers, the two are determined to face forward, despite Doria's sense of doomed
Reviewed on: 04/03/2006
Genre: Fiction
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