I wish someone told me not to get off the car when stopped by a cop as a sign of respect for them.
I wish someone told me not to pick up random kids in the park and kiss them on the cheeks like we do on Morocco without being considered psychos.
In this stunning work of historical fiction, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of Americaa Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record.
In his native Morocco, Amine Britel, early in life had a passion for sports. At age nine, he was the youngest male to earn his first degree in equestrian jumping. At age seventeen, he became a member of the Moroccan National Junior Team in the Sprint distances.