Arab Boy Delivered

Michael Haddad, the teenage son of Palestinian immigrants, comes

of age during the tumultuous sixties in his family's neighborhood grocery store

in New York City.

In 1967 Michael maneuvers through the working-class neighborhood

delivering groceries and enters the homes and lives of his customers. He's

confronted by the violence of racist bullies and falls for the radical college

coed who teaches him about sex, love, and protest. Michael grieves with the

mother whose only son died in the Vietnam War and is embraced by the first

black couple who move into the neighborhood. They all shape him, and through

the conflict of hate, acts of kindness, and his sexual awakening, Michael

struggles to figure out who this dutiful son of an immigrant family is.



Michael's life

is buffeted by the killing of Martin Luther King, Jr, and the death, two months

later, of Bobby Kennedy. His girlfriend opens his eyes to the ongoing struggle to

test national ideals against the growing diversity of America. But when Michael experiences a sudden personal tragedy, he must

learn to get past his fears, come to terms with his heritage, and set himself

free.