Ed links to this SF Chronicle profile of Diana Abu-Jaber.
“It wasn’t great for ‘Crescent’ to come out when the war was being launched; it gave me some initial attention, but it wasn’t appropriate,” says Abu-Jaber. “People were asking me things like, ‘Why do (Arabs) hate us?’ and asking me to speak for the Iraqi nation, which I really didn’t want to do and hadn’t intended to do in any fashion. It was frustrating to political activists who read it and wanted it to be more staunchly directive in what it says.”
Abu-Jaber’s Crescent is just now out in paperback.
Who is Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
What books has Laila Lalami written?
Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
What awards has Laila Lalami won?
Laila Lalami has won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston-Write Legacy Award, a Guggenheim a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Her work has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.