If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English: A Novel Binding:Paperback One night Birdie watches her

One night Birdie watches her father and his new girlfriend drive away with Cole

and Carley Fortune (aka me)

We were the stars that burned across the night sky

who instructs him in the ways of her family's powerful war art

reflection

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English: A Novel Binding:Paperback One night Birdie watches herWinner of the 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2023 Arab American Book Award for Fiction Shortlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlisted for the 2023 PEN Jean Stein Book Award Shortlisted for the 2022 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Winner of the Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize, a lush experimental novel about love as a weapon of empire. In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man