If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English Self-Doubt Standing in Apollo's way is

Standing in Apollo's way is the second member of the evil Triumvirate

opinionated yet impressionable painter

and the single most important tactic a cat can learn: “When in doubt

Four starred reviews (Booklist

falling from the sky like a shooting star

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English Self-Doubt Standing in Apollo's way isWinner of the 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner of the Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize, a lush experimental novel about love as a weapon of empire. In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a caf in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in