"I can't remember the last time I was so gripped simply by a novel's voice…Aaliya is thoughtful, she's complex, she's humorous and critical."-NPR.com"Beautiful and absorbing."-New York TimesAn Unnecessary Woman is...

An astonishingly inventive, wonderfully exuberant novel that takes us from the shimmering dunes of ancient Egypt to the war-torn streets of twenty-first-century Lebanon.In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in A...