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Reviewed on July 21, 2016 | LJ Reviews 7/21/2016
Novelist Matar's (In the Country of Men) debut memoir is elegant in its style and refined in its thinking. This is all the more notable since the subject is so ugly: the disappearance of his father, Jaballah, at the hands of the Libyan regime led by Muammar al-Qaddafi. Though other members of Matar's family also went missing, Jaballah is the only one who never returned, and this book sets out to investigate ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More