Born in New York to an Irish Catholic mother and a Jordanian-Muslim father, Diana Abu-Jaber teaches writing in Portland, Oregon but makes her home in Miami. Her fiction, “Crescent,” and “Birds of Paradise,” has been honored by NPR, The Washington Post, and the PEN Center for Literary Fiction. She mined her family’s culturally mixed messages in her first memoir, “the Language of Baklava,” and continues the saga in her latest book, “Life Without a Recipe.”
Life Without A Recipe
