A self-absorbed bestselling author who treats women like trophies meets his match in Ayen, a smart, fearless media powerhouse. The game changes when she writes a scathing viral article about their affair. Now that his ego is hurt and his reputation is ruined, he has to face the truth about who he is.
Amid the hum of engines and the ceaseless choreography of traffic, I kept searching not just for respite from the heat or wifi or good coffee, but for something literary. I was looking for the celebrated writer Abdulrazak Gurnah. Not the man (he hasn’t lived in Zanzibar for decades), but the essence of his writing, informed by this place: the ache of exile, the weight of history, the restless question of belonging he grapples with.
