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Both-time Pulitzer Prize and three-time National Book Award-nominated writer of Le Divorce results with a magical story of double standards and double brokers In Lulu in Marrakech, Diane Johnson brilliantly reveals the manners and morals of the cultural collision between Islam and the West. Lulu Sawyer comes in Marrakech, Morocco, wanting to rekindle her love with a worldly Englishman, Ian Drumm. It is the perfect cover for her task for the CIA-searching the movement of cash from well-heeled contributors to radical Islamic organizations. Lulu sees the tense and delicate coexistence of two ethnicities, while spending her days poolside among Europeans in rentals staffed by maids in abayas, and her evenings at vibrant dinner events.