Laila Lalami is a Moroccan-American novelist, essayist, and professor. After earning her licence ès lettres degree in Morocco, she received a fellowship to study in the United Kingdom (UK), where she earned an MA in linguistics.
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There’s a disconnect between how people imagine their families and how families are in real life.
On her novel The Other Americans in “Migrant State of Mind: A Q&A With Novelist Laila Lalami” in The Nation (2019 Apr 23)
When you move into a new place, it does involve a refashioning of the self.
On fashioning a new sense of self in “Migrant State of Mind: A Q&A With Novelist Laila Lalami” in The Nation (2019 Apr 23)
I think of history as a dialogue with the present, so whenever I’m puzzled by the turn of current events - which is all too often these days - I look to the past for context.
with New York Times (2019)
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