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Book Title: Life Without a Recipe : a Memoir of Food and Family
Item Length: 8.3in
Item Height: 0.8in
Item Width: 5.6in
Author: Diana Abu-Jaber
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Women, Women Authors, Cultural Heritage, Personal Memoirs, Literary, American / General
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Publication Year: 2017
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
Item Weight: 7.9 Oz
Number of Pages: 271 Pages
