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Laila Lalami

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Laila Lalami is the author of five books, including The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award, and the Hurston Wright Legacy Award. It was on the longlist for the Booker Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Her most recent novel, The Other Americans, was a national bestseller, won the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. Her books have been translated into twenty languages. She has been awarded fellowships from the British Council, the Fulbright Program, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. She lives in Los Angeles.

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The Dream Hotel had a dream launch, much to my relief and delight. It received excellent reviews, including in the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, NPR’s Fresh Air, Vulture, the Guardian, and the Irish Times. The Washington Post Book World put the book on its cover, with a review by Francine Prose. In March, Harper’s published an excerpt from it. The Economist named it one of

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	Season of Migration to the North (New York Review Books Classics) by Tayeb Salih, Laila Lalami (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Denys Johnson-Davies (Translator) 3.72 avg rating — 33,423 ratings — published 1966 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dream Hotel 3.61 avg rating — 31,167 ratings — published 2025 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Other Americans 3.90 avg rating — 19,404 ratings — published 2019 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Moor's Account 4.04 avg rating — 12,871 ratings — published 2014 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America 4.27 avg rating — 4,269 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hope And Other Dangerous Pursuits 3.73 avg rating — 3,120 ratings — published 2005 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secret Son 3.51 avg rating — 1,737 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic by The New York Times, Caitlin Roper (Contributor)(Preface), Rivka Galchen (Contribiutor)(Introduction) 3.55 avg rating — 1,652 ratings — published 2020 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives by Nancy Pearl (Goodreads Author) (Narrator), Jeff Schwager (Contributor)(Narrator), Susan Orlean (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.78 avg rating — 1,241 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ploughshares Spring 2024 Guest-edited by Laila Lalami by Laila Lalami (Goodreads Author), Mosab Abu Toha (Goodreads Author), Nathalie Handal 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Laila Lalami wrote a new blog post Spring Update The Dream Hotel had a dream launch, much to my relief and delight. It received excellent reviews, including in the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, Read more of this blog post »
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“No lies are more seductive than the ones we use to console ourselves.”
― Laila Lalami, The Moor's Account

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“Perhaps memory is not merely the preservation of a moment in the mind, but the process of repeatedly returning to it, carefully breaking it up in parts and assembling them again until we can make sense of what we remember.”
― Laila Lalami, The Other Americans

tags: life-and-living, memory

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“A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.”
― Laila Lalami, The Moor's Account

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October Side Read Nominations ~ 1st Poll
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The Plot

by Jean Hanff Korelitz

6 votes, 18.2%

The Secret Life of Bees

by Sue Monk Kidd

6 votes, 18.2%

Mexican Gothic

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

6 votes, 18.2%

Confessions on the 7:45

by Lisa Unger

6 votes, 18.2%

What Could Be Saved

by Liese O'Halloran Schwarz

3 votes, 9.1%

The Moor's Account

by Laila Lalami

2 votes, 6.1%

Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me

by Adrienne Brodeur

2 votes, 6.1%

The Holdout

by Graham Moore

2 votes, 6.1%

The City We Became

by N.K. Jemisin

0 votes, 0.0%

The Fortunate Ones

by Ed Tarkington

0 votes, 0.0%

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message 1: by Roger

Oct 18, 2008 11:41PM

HI Laila,
I'm really glad that you got back. Your work sounds fantastic. I'm currently working on a political thriller set in Iran but will be starting one shortly based in Algeria. A French middle class filmmaker of Algerian origin gets permission to go to Algeria (during the civil conflict) to make a sequel to the classic movie The Battle of Algiers. He's also trying to find out what happened to his friend from University, a Kabyle Berber who was a staunch Stalinist before the collapse of the USSR who seems to have become an oil executive then been killed by Islamicist terrorists. The protagonist falls for his friend's sister then begins to realise that he isn't actually dead. Thematically, it's a remake of The Third Man by Carrol Reed, Graham Greene and Orson Wells with "Harry Lime" manipulating Islamic terrorism to drive the indigenous Berber population out of an oil rich part of Kabyle.

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