" Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge is a remarkable novel for its style, its plot, and its reach into the experience of straddling two worlds and two states of being."-- Banipal "Ezzedine Choukri Fishere . taking his literary career to new heights."-- Egypt Independent "A beautiful, unique novel."-- Gamal al-Ghitani, author of Zayni Barakat "A deeper view of the world of Arabs abroad . [ Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge ] represents the symbol of Arab immigrants without carrying their usual stereotypical qualities . Fishere offers no simple solutions to his characters and doesn't try to preach in one way or another, but rather to flash a light on a different dimension and let his heroes do the talking."-- Al-Ahram "Fishere's method movingly teases out the spaces between belonging and forced, awkward fits, and the result is certain to endure in the reader's consciousness .

[ Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge ] is "Mrs. Dalloway" for an age when conversations about immigration, particularly from Arab nations, dominate--a gripping portrait of the tenuous spaces that marginalized populations are made to occupy, and a searing examination of the struggle to belong."-- Foreword Reviews.