In her 2005 debut Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Laila Lalami begins her novel from the perspective of one of the four Moroccans who has boarded an inflatable boat to travel from Morocco to Spain in search of a better life. Murad is wearing three layers of clothing and had just three hours to prepare for the trip; he is focused first on the 14 kilom…
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