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Jun 30, 2020 | 461 Minutes Buy
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Jun 30, 2020 | ISBN 9780593295304
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When a young man is given the chance to rewrite his future, he doesn’t realize the price he will pay for giving up his past…Casablanca’s stinking alleys are the only home that nineteen-year-old Youssef El-Mekki has ever known. Raised by his mother in a one-room home, he dreams of escape – until, one day, the father he thought dead turns out to be very much alive, and whisks him from the slums into the luxurious life of Casablanca’s elite. But as he leaves the poverty of his childhood behind him, he comes up against a starkly un-glittering reality…
LAILA LALAMI was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco, Great Britain, and the United States. She the author of four novels, including The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and was… More about Laila Lalami
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