Through and Through: Toledo Stories is written by Joseph Geha and was originally published in 1990 by Graywolf Press for the first edition and in 2009 by Syracuse University Press for the second edition.
Joseph Geha was born in 1944 in Lebanon. In 1946, when he was just 2 years old, he moved to the United States with his family. He was living in Toledo, Ohio when he moved to the US. He graduated from high school in Toledo in 1962. He graduated from university in 1966 with a B.A. and 1968 with an M.A. in English.
He received a couple awards for his works over the years, amongst them the National Endowment for the Arts in 1988 and a Pushcart Prize in 1990. Along with this short story collection, Through and Through: Toledo Stories, Geha also has published Flyaway: Arab American Writing and Labanese Blonde.
This short story collection is about an Arab family living in an Arab-American community. Toledo, Ohio, being where Geha grew up, is where the story takes place. It takes place in an Arab neighborhood. Geha was probably able to write these stories based on many of his own personal experiences living in Toledo.
