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lizmart88's review against another edition
3.0
I'm a sucker for books about kidnapping!
Fiction - about a woman who is half Jordanian, married to a Jordanian man. She comes home from work one day and finds her husband has taken her twin 8 year olds to Jordan to live.
I liked the different perspectives - we get a section from her husband and from her twins and from her two best friends. But I felt it was a little unbalanced. I wanted more of the other perspectives to deepen their characters.
The plot moves among quickly with a few good plot twists as well. Satisfying ending.
Fiction - about a woman who is half Jordanian, married to a Jordanian man. She comes home from work one day and finds her husband has taken her twin 8 year olds to Jordan to live.
I liked the different perspectives - we get a section from her husband and from her twins and from her two best friends. But I felt it was a little unbalanced. I wanted more of the other perspectives to deepen their characters.
The plot moves among quickly with a few good plot twists as well. Satisfying ending.
_honeydelarose's review
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
heatherinthenether's review against another edition
5.0
Mosaic was just as good as her other book, Mirage. I love her writing and will definitely be checking out anything else she’s got out there.
This one focused not only on the Arab-American family in the center of things, but also on how friendships can be awesome when they are made up of people from different backgrounds. I am making it sound WAY too simple, but I don’t want to give anything away.
Another great book. Verdict: A
This one focused not only on the Arab-American family in the center of things, but also on how friendships can be awesome when they are made up of people from different backgrounds. I am making it sound WAY too simple, but I don’t want to give anything away.
Another great book. Verdict: A
ahsimlibrarian's review
4.0
BookList: Like her debut, Mirage (1995), Khashoggi’s second novel sculpts a broader understanding of Arab women’s lives, both in the Middle East and America. Dina Ahmed has it all, a happy family and flourishing floral-design business, but her world ruptures when she discovers that her husband, Karim, has kidnapped their eight-year-old twins from New York and returned with them to his homeland in Jordan. Dina enlists her good friends Sarah, a Jewish physician, and Emmeline, a “Creole Martha Stewart,” to help her pick up the pieces and find a way to fight back. All the while, Dina must shield her eldest son, who has been rejected by his father for being gay, while risking all to regain her twins. Delicate subjects--from the complexity of marriage to the clash of American and Islamic cultures--are approached with care and balance, and the combination of savvy writing and three-dimensional characters brings refreshing depth and perspective to this highly charged, emotional story. -- MishaStone (BookList, 09-15-2004, p208)
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