March 19, 2006
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
9:30 AM Discussion: The narrative of immigration in fiction. (Closed to the public) National Writers Workshop Portland, Oregon
Laila Lalami
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December 20, 2005
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
7:00 PM Reading with Jess Row Looking Glass Bookstore 318 SW Taylor Street Portland, Oregon
October 27, 2005
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
7:30 pm Annie Bloom’s Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy Portland, Oregon
October 05, 2005
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
7:30 PM Powell’s City of Books 1005 W Burnside Portland, Oregon
September 08, 2005
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
3:00 PM Celebration of Authors Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Association Portland, Oregon
Praise and Reviews
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
“A tale of contemporary Morocco straddling the personal and the political, told simply, beautifully, with heart and panache. Lalami has talent to burn.” —Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutante’s Handbook and Absurdistan. “Laila Lalami’s tale of a young Moroccan man who must navigate between a bleak background and a bright possibility is magnificently told [...]
About the Book
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
I remember clearly the day I began working on the manuscript that became Secret Son. I was still revising Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, but I longed to try my hand at something new. At the time, I was living in Portland, Oregon. It was raining. (Of course, it always rains in Portland, so this [...]
Praise and Reviews
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
“A dream of a debut, by turns troubling and glorious, angry and wise. With her spare elegant prose Lalami has constructed a world remarkable for its resilience, its vibrancy, its motion, and yes, its hope.” —Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz, author of Drown “Laila Lalami’s compelling work of fiction provides an anatomy of hope and [...]
Book Reviews
Monday, August 18th, 2008
On Leila Ahmed for the Los Angeles Times On Jonathan Littell for the Los Angeles Times On Elias Khoury for the Los Angeles Times On M.G. Vassanji for the Chicago Tribune On Marjane Satrapi for the Boston Globe On Alison Bechdel for the Boston Globe On Meg Mullins for the Washington Post On Amitav Ghosh [...]
