I picked up one of the last copies of Crescent left on the shelf at my local bookstore on Friday. I thought the book wasn’t due out till April, but I guess they brought it in a few days early and it seemed to be doing well.
I haven’t started reading it yet, but here is a
review from Abu-Jaber’s hometown paper,
The Oregonian, and
another one, from the
Christian Science Monitor.
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.