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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Lifted by the Great Nothing Author: Karim Dimechkie Narrator: Neil Shah Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins Language: English Release date: 05-19-15 Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 45 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: Max doesn't remember his mother, who was murdered by burglars before they emigrated from Beirut to New Jersey. He lives with his father, Rasheed, who is enamored of his concept of American culture - baseball and barbeques - and tries to shed his Lebanese heritage completely. "When we are in America," Reed (for he goes by Reed in America, not Rasheed) tells Max, "we are Americans." Rasheed has a singular purpose in life: to provide Max with a joyful childhood. He showers his son with gifts out of a belief that he deserves all and is capable of anything. Max wants nothing more than to convince his father that he is a successful single pa