He knows he is poor with few opportunities, but he's working hard to make the best of whatever chances he has by studying hard. He knows his mother is an orphan and thus the two of them must make their hardscrabble way together with no extended family to help. Youssef knows certain things about himself: He knows his father, whom he doesn't remember, was a respected fourth-grade teacher who died while hanging lights for a religious feast, falling three floors and breaking his neck. Laila Lalami's new novel, "Secret Son," brings readers into the down-and-out sections of Casablanca, Morocco, to follow the travails of Youssef El Mekki, a young man trying to rise above the abject poverty into which he was born. For those of us who have yet to read Laila Lalami's latest novel, Secret Son, The Los Angeles Times just published this review.Ī poor young man in Morocco makes the shocking discovery that his father isn't dead as he has always thought.
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