Local author Marc Acito will be in appearing here in Portland to promote the paperback release of How I Paid For College. Except this is no ordinary reading. It’s a one-man show, with Broadway songs and bits of stories:
Marc Acito presents Confessions of a Square Peg
Friday, September 30
7:30 PM
Multnomah Arts Center
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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.