Diana Abu-Jaber Books in Order

A Jordanian immigrant family settles in upstate New York, where a widowed father’s enthusiasms coexist with pressure on his daughters to marry. One daughter’s uncertainty about work, love and identity reveals the competing claims of heritage and the surrounding American community.

A Los Angeles restaurant cook content with her unmarried life falls for an Iraqi literature professor living in exile. The relationship unsettles her understanding of him and herself, bringing questions of memory, belonging and Arab-American identity into her familiar world of food.

Food memories connect Diana Abu-Jaber’s American childhood with her father’s Jordanian heritage. Family meals and accompanying recipes reveal his efforts to preserve a lost home, while the memoir explores how cooking carries identity, affection and cultural difference across generations.

A gifted fingerprint analyst investigates a series of unexplained infant deaths while struggling with isolation and an intrusive former husband. Her unusual sensitivity to crime scenes draws her deeper into the case and toward unresolved questions about her own childhood.

A young runaway approaches adulthood after years on Miami Beach, while the family she left behind continues to live with her absence. The consequences of a hidden act force parents, brother and daughter to reconsider responsibility, reconciliation and their possible futures.

Conflicting advice from an independent grandmother and a traditional father leaves Diana Abu-Jaber searching for a life of her own. Marriage, writing and the decision to become a mother shape a memoir about departing from inherited expectations without losing family connection.

Sami believes her grandmother’s confusion conceals something other than illness. A spell carries her through a mirror into a troubled enchanted city, where disappearances and a rising shadow power may also explain what is happening to the woman she wants to save.

A poet accompanies her father to Jordan for a royal birthday celebration, hoping to understand his past. A discovered poem and an uncle’s concealed motives draw her into family rivalry and buried history, making an apparent homecoming unexpectedly dangerous.