A young woman begins an affair with a much older famous American author. An Iraqi-American man is detained at Heathrow airport en route to the middle-east. What connects these stories is a matter of identity and creativity a la Alice Through the Looking Glass. This is a clever, sharp debut, given an extra element of intrigue by the author’s own history of a relationship, in her early twenties, with the American author Phillip Roth.
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