Hope & Other Dangerous Pursuits (17 page)

Above all, thanks to Alexander Yera, for keeping the faith, even when I didn't.

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© 2005 by Laila Lalami. All rights reserved.

Some of the stories in this collection appeared in somewhat different form in the following magazines: “The Trip” in
First Intensity
; “Better Luck Tomorrow” in
The Baltimore Review.

The version of the enchanted rug story used in “The Storyteller” is taken from
Contes et Légendes du Maroc
, Editions Fernand-Nathan, 1955.

This is a work of fiction. While, as in all fiction, the literary perceptions and insights are based on experience, all names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. No reference to any real person is intended or should be inferred.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available for a previous edition of this work.

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