Neda Ulaby Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Neda Ulaby

It's a realistic novel, but a picaresque novel is maybe a better word for it. It reminded me in a funny way of the novel "A Confederacy Of Dunces" ...even though, in many ways, it could not be more different. It's similarly manic and colorful and riotous and filled with energy.

Neda Ulaby

I think that sometimes people are like, oh, short stories by an Afghan writer - this is going to be really depressing. [In] my book club, this was their favorite thing that they read this whole year. It's so fresh. It's so vivid. It's so filled with energy and just incisiveness.

Neda Ulaby

I loved The Bone People so much when I read it in college. Rest in power, Keri Hulme. https://t.co/UmTCksQbcd

Neda Ulaby

Strange that Octavia Butler’s KINDRED is a TV series and her PARABLE OF THE SOWER is to be a movie. kindred seems better as a movie, and Parable as a series, no?

Neda Ulaby

Cannot WAIT to read this year's @penfaulkner fiction award winner. "'Rabih Alameddine’s The Wrong End of the Telescope takes us into the life of a transgender Lebanese-American doctor, Mina, working in Lesbos at a refugee camp for Syrians,'” said this year’s judges."

Neda Ulaby

This propulsive and poetic first novel, by an accomplished documentary film producer, grounds a tender coming-of-age narrative in a history of migration, marginalization and imagination.

Neda Ulaby

Strange that Octavia Butler’s KINDRED is a TV series and her PARABLE OF THE SOWER is to be a movie. kindred seems better as a movie, and Parable as a series, no?