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Like The Kite Runner and Packet Lane, Camilla Gibb’s broadly praised new book is just a touching and extremely atmospheric search beyond the stereotypes of Islam. After her hippie English parents are killed, Lilly is elevated in a Sufi shrine in Morocco. As a lady she continues pilgrimage to Harar, Ethiopia, where she shows Qur’an to kids and falls in deep love with an idealistic physician. But actually swathed in a conventional headscarf, Lilly can’t escape as being a foreigner being designated.