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Laila Lalami

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Morocco

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Laila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco, Great Britain, and the United States. She is the author of four novels, including The Moor's Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and The Other Americans, which was a national bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. Her essays and opinion pieces have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, The Nation, the Guardian, the New York Times, and in many anthologies. She is the recipient of a British Council Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is currently a professor of creative writing at the Un ...more

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Some news before I go on summer hiatus!

It was a pleasure to guest-edit the spring issue of the literary magazine Ploughshares, with poems by Mosab Abu Toha, Khaled Mattawa, January Gill O’Neil, Rob Shapiro, Connor Watkins-Xu; excerpts from forthcoming novels by Jane Smiley and Nina McConigley; short fiction from Emily Doyle, Francisco Goldman, Jamila Minnicks, and Tommy Orange; and essays by H

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	Season of Migration to the North (New York Review Books Classics) by Tayeb Salih, Laila Lalami (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Denys Johnson-Davies (Translator) 3.72 avg rating — 30,143 ratings — published 1966 — 68 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Other Americans 3.90 avg rating — 17,801 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Moor's Account 4.04 avg rating — 11,991 ratings — published 2014 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America 4.27 avg rating — 3,809 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits 3.73 avg rating — 2,791 ratings — published 2005 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secret Son 3.50 avg rating — 1,634 ratings — published 2009 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ploughshares Spring 2024 Guest-edited by Laila Lalami by Laila Lalami (Goodreads Author), Mosab Abu Toha (Goodreads Author), Nathalie Handal 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dream Hotel 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — expected publication 2025	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“No lies are more seductive than the ones we use to console ourselves.”
― Laila Lalami, The Moor's Account

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“A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.”
― Laila Lalami, The Moor's Account

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“Perhaps memory is not merely the preservation of a moment in the mind, but the process of repeatedly returning to it, carefully breaking it up in parts and assembling them again until we can make sense of what we remember.”
― Laila Lalami, The Other Americans

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Polls

July Side Read Nominations ~ 1st Poll
Top 5 Books move onto Final Poll

Hamnet

by Maggie O'Farrell

5 votes, 17.2%

The Glass Hotel

by Emily St. John Mandel

5 votes, 17.2%

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

by Bryan Stevenson

4 votes, 13.8%

The Whispering House

by Elizabeth Brooks

4 votes, 13.8%

Saint X

by Alexis Schaitkin

3 votes, 10.3%

Luster

by Raven Leilani

2 votes, 6.9%

Little Threats

by Emily Schultz

2 votes, 6.9%

The Garden of Small Beginnings

by Abbi Waxman

2 votes, 6.9%

Miss Benson's Beetle

by Rachel Joyce

1 vote, 3.4%

Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

by Laila Lalami

1 vote, 3.4%

Sisters

by Daisy Johnson

0 votes, 0.0%

29 total votes

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