Laila Lalami, Author . Algonquin $21.95 (195p) ISBN 978-1-56512-493-6
The four main characters of this linked series of fictional profiles are connected by a single goal: the desire to emigrate from Morocco to Spain, where there are jobs. Lalami, author of the literary blog moorishgirl.com, opens her book with the...
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Laila Lalami, Author . Algonquin $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-56512-494-3
Lalami's unpolished first novel (after story collection Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
) follows Youssef El Mekki, a 19-year-old living in the slums of Casablanca who learns that his father—believed to be dead—is alive. The news...
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Laila Lalami. Pantheon, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-307-91166-7
Lalami's second novel (after Secret Son) is historical fiction of the first-order, a gripping tale of Spanish exploration in the New World set in the years 1527 to 1536, as told by a Muslim slave. Meticulously researched, the novel is told in the...
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Laila Lalami. Pantheon, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4714-5
Lalami’s powerful third novel, after 2014’s Pulitzer Prize finalist The Moor’s Account, uses nine narrators to probe the schisms of American community. When Driss Guerraoui is killed in a hit-and-run, his single daughter Nora—a struggling composer...
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Laila Lalami. Pantheon, $25.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4716-9
In this eloquent and troubling account, novelist and National Book Award–finalist Lalami (The Other Americans) draws on her personal history as “an immigrant, a woman, an Arab, and a Muslim” to argue that becoming a U.S. citizen does not necessarily
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