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Dan Wickett relates this amusing anecdote at his blog, the Emerging Writers’ Network:
The three copies of Heti’s Ticknor caught my eye, especially as a woman who I’d guess was in her early fifties was picking one up. She didn’t glance at the blurbs, or skim the inside flap jacket – she just grabbed it like there was a line for them. I said, “Excuse me, do you mind if I ask you where you hear about that particualr book? Did you read her short story collection?”
Her response was “It’s being discussed on the Litblog Co-op this week and it sounded good.”
I smiled and said, “That’s so cool that you’re just grabbing a copy because of the LBC -I’m actually one of the members.” I then extended my hand and said, “My name is Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network.”
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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.