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“I’ve waited and waited for Marc Estrin’s Insect Dreams to become a cult classic on college campuses, but it hasn’t happened – yet,” Charles says. “In this touching, weirdly funny historical novel, poor Gregor – the human-cockroach from Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis – witnesses the great developments and tragedies of the first half of the 20th century. After escaping the Nazis, he scurries from the Scopes trial to Los Alamos, from the Japanese internment camps to the White House. Everywhere, he’s omnivorously attentive, his antennae sensitive to the pheromones of beauty and cruelty passing around him. It’s the kind of book from which one wakes clutching surreal scenes, desperate to tell others, delighted and baffled and horrified.”
Ron Charles is the book editor for the Christian Science Monitor and a board member of the National Book Critics Circle.
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.