Lalami, Laila, 1968-

Secret son : a novel / Laila Lalami. - First paperback edition. - Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010, c2009. - 306 pages ; 21 cm

Includes a conversation with the author and questions for discussion.

Youssef El Mekki, a college student living with his mother in the slums of Casablanca, learns that he is the product of an affair his mother had with a married businessman, and goes in search of his father who takes him in, gives him a job, and sets him on the path to his dreams until a reversal of fortune lands Youssef back in the slums and susceptible to the lure of a fringe group called the Party.

9781565129795 1565129792

2008052218


Young men--Morocco--Casablanca--Fiction.


Casablanca (Morocco)--Fiction.
Morocco--Fiction

PS3612.A543 / S43 2010

813/.6 [Fic]