Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent has been selected for Reading in the Rain, a community-wide reading program in Eugene, Oregon. Click on the “Events” tab to find out about the public readings and discussion groups that will be held throughout the month. Abu-Jaber also contributes an op-ed to the Register-Guard about her own arrival in Eugene, in 1990, to take up a position at the university.
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.