One evening, Khaled hears a bizarre short story that will foever change his life. Obsessed by the power of those words, Khaled embarks on a journey that will take him far from Benghazi, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh. When a chance encounter in a hotel brings Khaled face to face with the author, he is subsumed into the deepest friendship of his life - one that forces him, as the Arab Spring erupts, to confront agonizing tensions between revolution and safety, family and exile, and how to define his own sense of self against those closest to him.
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