If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English: A Novel

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English: A NovelWinner of the 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2023 Arab American Book Award for Fiction Shortlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlisted for the 2023 PEN Jean Stein Book Award Shortlisted for the 2022 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Winner of the Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize, a lush experimental novel about love as a weapon of empire. In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man

or perceived as "soft"--the product of a systematic

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature

and sexuality

a novel of self-discovery

when it seems like they’ve lost everything of their father

ISBN: 0593467213

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Diasporican reveals how food connects us to family

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poignant glimpse of the life -- public and private -- of a premier African-American writer

how it is inherited across generations

Past and present converge as these characters come together to confront decisions made during a time of war--decisions that reverberate throughout one another's lives and ultamately allow them and find common ground across race