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Every author has a story about his or her second book. The frustration. The torn-up pages. The contemplations of self-harm. How did it suddenly get so hard, when that first book one with your smiling face on the back cover, currently available in bookstores from Miami to Seattle was so simple, so blessed, so carefree in its creation?
Dan Pope writes about the curse of the second novel.
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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.