“There’s a disconnect between how people imagine their families and how families are in real life.”

— Laila Lalami

On her novel The Other Americans in “Migrant State of Mind: A Q&A With Novelist Laila Lalami” https://www.thenation.com/article/laila-lalami-interview-the-other-americans/ in The Nation (2019 Apr 23)

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