Laila Lalami’s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits is a reflection on unemployment and underemployment and how they affect the lives of some ambitious Moroccan youths. Set in the late 90s and early 2000s, largely under the reign of King Hassan, the book follows the life of four Moroccans: two men and two women, who hoped…
Arundhati Roy‘s The God of Small Things is the ninth novel I’ve read this year, making it my most productive year for fiction. I’m primarily a reader of papers and non-fiction, and to be honest, this book isn’t for the amateur reader. However, it’s entertaining and, in my opinion, a truly worthy winner of the…
Rogue Lawyer is a thriller novel about a divorced father and weird lawyer named Sabastian Rudd. His lesbian ex-wife—also a lawyer—leaves him for a woman named Ava. But the botched lawyer-lawyer union is blessed with a son, Starcher, who enjoys only thirty-six hours with his father every month. Rudd has no office, save for his…
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