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As Nancy grows into adulthood, she pieces together what happened to her father and devises a bold plan to avenge his disappearance. Unraveling an international web of deceit in order to find her father will take time and patience; and becoming a cold-blooded assassin takes commitment to a life at odds with everything she knows.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309832089973,"sku":"9781945335082","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781945335082_e8829e58-f77e-4d80-9190-f16ba9848c84.jpg?v=1786030795"},{"product_id":"9781531511593","title":"An Honest Living","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exiled professor’s journey from inside and beyond academe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 2014, Steven Salaita was fired from a tenured position in American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois for his unwavering stance on Palestinian human rights and other political controversies. A year later, he landed a job in Lebanon, but that, too, ended badly. With no other recourse, Salaita found himself trading his successful academic career for an hourly salaried job. Told primarily from behind the wheel of a school bus—a vantage point from which Salaita explores social anxiety, suburban architecture, political alienation, racial oppression, working-class solidarity, pro­fessional malfeasance, and the joy of chauffeuring children to and from school—\u003ci\u003eAn Honest Living \u003c\/i\u003edescribes the author’s decade of turbulent post-professorial life and his recent return to the lectern.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSteven Salaita was practically born to a life in academia. His father taught physics at an HBCU in southern West Virginia and his earliest memories are of life on campus and the cinder walls of the classroom. It was no surprise that he ended up in the classroom straight after graduate school. Yet three of his university jobs—Virginia Tech, the University of Illinois, and the American University of Beirut [AUB] —ended in public controversy. Shaken by his sudden notoriety and false claims of antisemitism, Salaita found himself driving a school bus to make ends meet. While some considered this just punishment for his anti-Zionist beliefs, Steven found that driving a bus provided him with not just a means to pay the bills but a path toward freedom of thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow ten years later, with a job at American University at Cairo, Salaita reconciles his past with his future. His restlessness has found a home, yet his return to academe is met with the same condition of fugitivity from whence he was expelled: an occasion for defiance, not conciliation. \u003ci\u003eAn Honest Living \u003c\/i\u003epresents an intimate personal narrative of the author’s decade of professional joys and travails.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369017192821,"sku":"9781531511593","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781531511593_c168bd8b-1755-49d0-a4da-2a722f978f14.jpg?v=1786023472"},{"product_id":"9781945335464","title":"Jerry and Rodrigo Go to War","description":"Rodrigo Suarez’s Coyote Road is a veritable smash hit. Anyone who’s anyone is reading it, and the accolades and speaking invitations are pouring in. There is just one problem: Rodrigo didn’t write it. Jerry Turley did. And no one believes him. Thus, Jerry—an unimpressive professor at an Appalachian university—embarks on an obsessive, self-destructive crusade to prove his authorship and expose Rodrigo as a thief and an impostor. It doesn’t take much Googling to discover that “Rodrigo” is not the man he claims to be. Convincing people to care about it proves much harder. In this uncomfortable campus farce, Steven Salaita holds a mirror to the nagging questions of authenticity and appropriation that occupy college campuses and literary institutions alike, daring to ask us who really stands to benefit from our era of sensitivity and self-regard.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369417814389,"sku":"9781945335464","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781945335464_a5d60de5-5946-441f-a112-953def4ba3c5.jpg?v=1786030803"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-steven-salaita.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}