They push and pull their way across the Mediterranean, wondering with each turn if their love, or lust, can free Zebra from her past. Neither are wrong neither can let the other go. Even when he’s being silly, he’s being sincere. Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is the author of the novel Call Me Zebra (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018) winner of the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the John Gardner Award, and longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. He thinks she's unhinged she thinks he's pedantic. This is a documentary that moves at the speed of thought, but it’s still well-considered.

Zebra overwhelms him with her complex literary theories, her concern with death, and her obsession with history. Their connection is magnetic their time together fraught. Now alone and in exile, Zebra leaves New York for Barcelona, retracing the journey she and her father made from Iran to the United States years ago.Books are Zebra's only companions-until she meets Ludo. When war came, her family didn't fight they took refuge in books. reclaim her past by mining the wisdom of her literary icons-even as she navigates the murkier mysteries of love.Zebra is the last in a line of anarchists, atheists, and autodidacts. When war comes to Iran, she flees with her father years later, and alone, she begins retracing their journey.

Before she was Zebra, Bibi Abbas Abbas Hosseini was raised in a library and taught to memorize literary classics. 'From an award-winning young author, a novel following a feisty heroine's idiosyncratic quest to. The following is from Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi's novel, Call Me Zebra.

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