Amerka, Paperback Book, By: Rabih Jaber

She was crucified on her pale white face as she saw the Stone Lady stretching the stone flame toward her and emerging from the fog that covered the sea. I heard a voice say, This is the Statue of Liberty, and there, behind the strange fog, do you see the buildings, skyscrapers, this is New York City, look at the tall houses! Marta Haddad, a poor and beautiful young woman, traveled from Mount Lebanon to New York in 1913 in search of her husband. Years later, we see her in Pasadena, California, wealthy and surrounded by sons, daughters and grandchildren. Through characters and stories, the novel takes us to America, to the "Arab front, " and to Siberia. The Great War, then the forgotten influenza epidemic, then golden good years, then the global economic crisis (1929), then other good years, then a second world war. Martha lives through all of this, and the readers too.