Towelhead

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)