Download or read book Towelhead written by Alicia Erian and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-07-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sent to live with her strict Lebanese father in Texas upon the outbreak of the Gulf War, Arab-American teen Jasira endures racial taunts from her new classmates and enters into a dangerously exploitative relationship with a bigoted Army reservist. Reissue. 75,000 first printing. (A Warner Independent film, directed by Alan Ball, releasing August 2008, starring Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, & Maria Bello) (General Fiction)