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Call Me Zebra

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

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Call Me Zebra won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Zebra is the last in a line of anarchists, atheists, and autodidacts. When war came, her family didn't fight; they took refuge in books. Now alone and in exile, Zebra leaves New York for Barcelona, retracing the journey she and her father made from Iran to the United States years ago. Books are Zebra's only companions—until she meets Ludo. Their connection is magnetic; their time together fraught. Zebra overwhelms him with her complex literary theories, her concern with death, and her obsession with history. He thinks she's unhinged; she thinks he's pedantic. Neither are wrong; neither can let the other go. They push and pull their way across the Mediterranean, wondering with each turn if their love, or lust, can free Zebra from her past.

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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN-13
9780544944602
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Exile and displacementPower of literature and languageLove and identity

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