Call Me ZebraCall Me Zebra

The last surviving member of a line of exiled, bookish anarchists, atheists and autodidacts leaves her New York home for Barcelona to retrace the journey she made years earlier with her father, only to forge an unexpected connection with a man with very different perspectives. By the award-winning author of Fra Keeler.
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Winner of the John Gardner Award for Fiction

&;Hearken ye fellow misfits, migrants, outcasts, squint-eyed bibliophiles, library-haunters and book stall-stalkers: Here is a novel for you.&;&;Wall Street Journal

&;A tragicomic picaresque whose fervid logic and cerebral whimsy recall the work of Bolaño and Borges.&; &;New York Times Book Review

Longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award * An Amazon Best Book of the Year * A Publishers Weekly Bestseller

Named a Best Book by: Entertainment Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, Boston Globe, Fodor's, Fast Company, Refinery29,Nylon, Los Angeles Review of Books, Book Riot, The Millions, Electric Literature, Bitch, Hello Giggles, Literary Hub, Shondaland, Bustle, Brit & Co., Vol. 1 Brooklyn,Read It Forward,Entropy Magazine,Chicago Review of Books, iBooks and Publishers Weekly

Zebra is the last in a line of anarchists, atheists, and autodidacts. Alone and in exile, she leaves New York for Barcelona, retracing the journey she and her father made from Iran to the United States years ago. Books are her only companions&;until she meets Ludo. Their connection is magnetic, and fraught. They push and pull across the Mediterranean, wondering if their love&;or lust&;can free Zebra from her past. Starring a heroine as quirky as Don Quixote, as brilliant as Virginia Woolf, as worldly as Miranda July, and as spirited as Lady Bird, Call Me Zebra is &;hilarious and poignant, painting a magnetic portrait of a young woman you can&;t help but want to know more about&; (Harper&;s Bazaar).
From an award-winning young author, a novel following a feisty heroine&;s idiosyncratic quest to reclaim her past by mining the wisdom of her literary icons&;even as she navigates the murkier mysteries of love.
From an award-winning young author, a novel following a feisty heroine's idiosyncratic quest to reclaim her past by mining the wisdom of her literary icons'even as she navigates the murkier mysteries of love.
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Winner of the John Gardner Award for Fiction

'Hearken ye fellow misfits, migrants, outcasts, squint-eyed bibliophiles, library-haunters and book stall-stalkers: Here is a novel for you.''Wall Street Journal

'A tragicomic picaresque whose fervid logic and cerebral whimsy recall the work of Bolaño and Borges.' 'New York Times Book Review

Longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award * An Amazon Best Book of the Year * A Publishers Weekly Bestseller

Named a Best Book by: Entertainment Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, Boston Globe, Fodor's, Fast Company, Refinery29,Nylon, Los Angeles Review of Books, Book Riot, The Millions, Electric Literature, Bitch, Hello Giggles, Literary Hub, Shondaland, Bustle, Brit & Co., Vol. 1 Brooklyn,Read It Forward,Entropy Magazine,Chicago Review of Books, iBooks and Publishers Weekly

Zebra is the last in a line of anarchists, atheists, and autodidacts. Alone and in exile, she leaves New York for Barcelona, retracing the journey she and her father made from Iran to the United States years ago. Books are her only companions'until she meets Ludo. Their connection is magnetic, and fraught. They push and pull across the Mediterranean, wondering if their love'or lust'can free Zebra from her past. Starring a heroine as quirky as Don Quixote, as brilliant as Virginia Woolf, as worldly as Miranda July, and as spirited as Lady Bird, Call Me Zebra is 'hilarious and poignant, painting a magnetic portrait of a young woman you can't help but want to know more about' (Harper's Bazaar).