About Laila Lalami: Laila Lalami is a Moroccan American novelist and essayist. After earning her undergraduate degree in Morocco, she received a fellowship to study in England, where she earned an MA in linguistics.
Telling a story is like sowing a seed—you always hope to see it become a beautiful tree, with firm roots and branches that soar up in the sky. But it is a peculiar sowing, for you will never know whether your seed sprouts or dies.
His anger took many shapes: sometimes soft and familiar, like a round stone he had caressed for so long that is was perfectly smooth and polished; sometimes it was thin and sharp like a blade that could slice through anything; sometimes it had the fo...
The universe had an odd sense of fairness; it took away things one did not want to give up, and then gave things one did not ask for.
