That’s it for me this week. I will be spending the weekend working on my novel, finishing Amitav Ghosh’s excellent Incendiary Circumstances, and looking for comedy in Albert Brooks’s latest film. On Monday, I will be reading from Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits in Lansing, Michigan. Here are the details:
Monday, January 23, 2006
3:30 PM
Reading and Discussion
Michigan State University
255 Old Horticulture
East Lansing, Michigan
The reading is free and open to the public. See you there!
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.