Well, That Didn’t Take Long

A writer using the pseudonym James Pinocchio has just released his debut, um, novel, called A Million Little Lies, USA Today reports:

In A Million Little Lies, written surprisingly well by the pseudonymous James Pinocchio (real name: Pablo F. Fenjves), we meet a tortured young man who wakes in the back of a Manhattan cab with a combination lock puncturing his left ear – like Frey, who wrote that he woke up covered in vomit and blood, with four teeth missing and a hole in his cheek. Pinocchio is in great pain and has no memory of how he pierced his ear. He shows up at his parents’ posh home, only to be shipped off to rehab.

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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.