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Max doesn't bear in mind his mother, who was murdered by thieves before they emigrated from Beirut to NJ. He lives with his father, Rasheed, who's enamored of his idea of American culture - football and barbeques - and attempts to shed his Lebanese traditions completely. "When we are in the us," Reed (for he goes by Reed in the us, not Rasheed) explains to Max, "we could Americans." Rasheed has a singular goal in life: to provide Utmost with a joyful childhood. He showers his child with presents out of the perception that he deserves all and it is capable of anything. Max desires nothing more than to convince his dad that he is a successful solo parent. The only thing that can disrupt their peaceful world is the reality - which it does, with make. When Max converts 17, he discovers from Rasheed's ex-girlfriend that his dad has been laying to him. Max's knowledge of the earth is so rocked that he is subsequently launched by using an uncertain quest to Beirut and then Paris. Lifted by the Great Nothing is a startlingly elegant and often hilarious coming-of-age story about the measures we go to to be able to protect the untruths by which we live. Using its poignant relationships, unsettling misadventures, and surprising love stories, it is just a touching and damaging portrait of a man coming to terms with his country's - and his own - violent former.
