Straight from the Horse's Mouth
Alaoui, Meryem / Ramadan, Emma
This hilarious, colorful portrait of a prostitute navigating life in modern Morocco introduces a promising new literary voice.Jmiaa, a prostitute in Casablanca, lives alone with her daughter. A woman of strong character and quick wit, she doesn't hold back when describing the world around her: her lover Chaïba, a crude, wordless brute, or Halima, her depressed fellow prostitute who reads the Qur'an between clients, or Mouy, her mother with imp...