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Author(s): Francine Prose

Location(s): New Jersey

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 2005

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It’s October 2005, post 9/11 and the States are at a low point of the Bush presidency. Lula, part Muslim, part Christiam is finding a settled life in New Jersey, far away from her native Albania.

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