Now that school is out for the semester, I can actually read books that I WANT to read. So today we went to the library and I picked out The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer and Once in a Promised Land by Laila Halaby. The first seems to take place in Iran mostly and is Sofer's first novel. She is Iranian and received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence. Halaby is Lebanese-American -- this is her second novel. I also checked out Jesus Out to Sea, short stories by one of my favorites, James Lee Burke.
Off to read now.
EmmaG
