“Lalami writes about her home country without the expatriate’s self-indulgent and often condescending nostalgia. She brings a calm sympathy to all her characters… her evenhandedness offers us no scope for easy judgments.”
—Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books

Videos

Laila’s appearance on Authors@Google:

Laila on Non Fiction for LARB:

Laila on Creative Writing:

Laila Reading from Secret Son: