Showing posts with label Pearl Abraham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pearl Abraham. Show all posts

Thursday, April 22, 2010

American Taliban

Are we so walled off that we look at personal exploration and the search for self as an act to be suspicious of? There was a time when students traveled to exotic parts of the world as a way to do what young people do, that is to explore and find themselves. Today, imagine a middle class kids who travels to the Middle East on a spiritual quest and winds up there on the eve of 9/11. This is the backdrop of Pearl Abraham's new novel American Taliban: A Novel.

My conversation with Pearl Abraham:
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