Hisham Matar's In the Country of Men
The narrator of this novel reminded me of the one from The Kite Runner,, maybe b/c they're both jerky children. This one is living in Libya in 1979, with his secretly-alcoholic mother and his often-gone father. Everyone's all up in arms b/c revolutionaries are afoot, everyone is being watched, blah blah. I liked the ending but wasn't really into the rest of it--slightly clueless, unsympathetic narrators are really hard to pull off. B-.
OK, back to avoiding writing a paper.
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