Alligator and other stories

"In 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 story is a snapshot of those moments when unusual circumstances suddenly distinguish us from our neighbours, 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 now lost their name, and a young woman about to discover the hollowness of the American dream. At its centre lies 'Alligator' : a remarkable compilation of real and invented sources, which rescues from history the story of a Syrian American couple who were murdered a the hands of the state."--Cover