A handful of pages into Alicia Erian 's first novel , '' Towelhead , '' we learn that the narrator , Jasira , has been ejected from her mother 's house in Syracuse , N.Y. , for crimes related to being 13 : chiefly , her sudden insistence on having breasts and pubic hair .
Alicia Erian /people/person/place_of_birth Syracuse
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Alicia Erian
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Syracuse
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