Sex and Lies by Leila Slimani

Sex and Lies by Leila Slimani'Striking.' ELLE France 'Brave.' iNews 'Powerful.' TLS 'Urgent.' Evening Standard 'Original.' CosmopolitanIn these essays, Leila Slimani gives voice to young Moroccan women who are grappling with a conservative Arab culture that at once condemns and commodifies sex. In a country where the law punishes and outlaws all forms of sex outside marriage, as well as homosexuality and prostitution, women have only two options for their sexual identities:

At its center is an exquisite form of noticing

young readers will delight in counting each creature's babies and seeing where they live

From Penguin's The Originals collection

When Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe

But I wasn't always that way

as both jaws

are never-before-seen photos of life on and off the road

It's in an elephant ride

enlightening and masterly' Spectator

All her life Serenata has run

dangerous freefall into the darkest places of the soul as she roams the empty streets of a city that she has never learned to love

living by their wits