If Scheherazade and Neil Gaiman had a baby, she would look like G. Willow Wilson‘s new novel, Alif the Unseen.
This talented young American Muslim writer has written comic books, a graphic novel (Cairo), a wonderful memoir (The Butterfly Mosque), and, now, an irresistible novel which has a foot in Eastern and Western ideas of fantasy, philosophy, religion, technology, and spirituality – and is equally comfortable in both.
Pick up Alif the Unseen and dive into its lively world today!