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A darkly humorous saga set in post-9/11 America and the Middle East WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS begins on September 12th, 2001. It is the story of Hunayn, a luckless and lovelorn Iraqi college student living in Orlando, Florida, after having graduated from high school in Beirut. Hunayn's life is upended by 9/11but not immediately, and not in the way that he, fearful in the aftermath of the attacks, initially expects. As America settles into its post-9/11, open-ended "Septemberland" phase (vigilant but also overly suspicious and even paranoid), many Arab and Muslim Americans are made to feel it's no longer their home. With Hunayn, who muddles through a series of surreal episodes in Orlando and nearby Indiantown, the situation proves almost the opposite: Septemberlandso many of whose citizens think they have Hunayn figured out just because of his name or originscomes to remind him of his most recent unhappy home, Lebanon, which he assumed he'd left behind. Now, having had his fill of disconcerting experiences, Hunayn returns to Beirut. At least he knows how to navigate life back thereor so he thinks. It turns out that Lebanon is about to undergo political upheaval of its own: a former prime

Who reads When All Else Fails?

Author

Rayyan Al-Shawaf

Publisher

Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781623719777

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.9 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14