{"product_id":"is-this-how-you-eat-a-watermelon","title":"Is this how you eat a watermelon?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA dozen boarding school students find themselves stranded at the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War. A young man, a young woman, and a mistreated monkey unite in a bid to survive. Even Israel's war on Lebanon cannot stop an old woman from getting her fix of nicotine. A young Lebanese student on a visit to Bahrain is wrongly implicated as a terrorist and placed in a prison with other political prisoners where light and hope is absconding. Fresh snow compels a sacrilegious undertaking from a father much to the shock of his children. Shared trauma takes the shape of phantom spectrals. And in the titular story, a hedonistic man eats himself to an early death with the desecration of the city of Beirut forming the backdrop.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIs This How You Eat a Watermelon? by Zein El-Amine invites readers into a world where love, war, and trauma collide with the desire to consume life--or be consumed by it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arab American National Museum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48970512498840,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0318\/0585\/files\/image_file__24755.1740443196.webp?v=1778088287","url":"https:\/\/store.arabamericanmuseum.org\/products\/is-this-how-you-eat-a-watermelon","provider":"Arab American National Museum","version":"1.0","type":"link"}