![]() ![]() Lalami’s debut novel, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, is the Maple Woods campus-wide common read this spring. She is the author of the short story collection Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book. ![]() Lalami’s Kansas City Public Library appearance is co-presented by Metropolitan Community College-Maple Woods. About the author (2014) Laila Lalami was born and raised in Morocco. The Moor’s Account was an American Book Award winner and a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist. The Moor’s Account, by Laila Lalami, Periscope Books, RRP£9.99/Vintage, RRP15.95, 328 pages. In her alternative narrative for a failed expedition, we come to understand that black men played a significant role in exploring the New World and that Native Americans were not merely silent witnesses to it. Mighty oaks from tiny acorns grow and Lalami’s story is a fertile blend of fact and fiction. ![]() The Moor’s Account is a novel, but Lalami demonstrates that sometimes it takes a work of fiction to find the truth in our history. In The Moor’s Account, Pulitzer Prize finalist Laila Lalami imagines the memoir of the fourth survivor: Mustafa ibn Muhammad, the Moroccan slave of one of the explorers. ![]() The lives of the three Castilian survivors were well chronicled – and some say idealized – by expedition member Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. In 1527, Castilian conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez led a crew of 600 men from Spain to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States for the Spanish crown. ![]()
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