Sex and Lies

¿Striking.¿ ELLE France
¿Brave.¿ iNews
¿Powerful.¿ TLS
¿Urgent.¿ Evening Standard
¿Original.¿ Cosmopolitan

In these essays, Le¿ 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: virgin or wife. Sex and Lies is an essential confrontation with Morocco''s intimate demons and a vibrant appeal for the universal freedom to be, to love and to desire.

¿Le¿ Slimani has a knack for breaking taboos. . . Sex and Lies is well executed: the novelist paints vivid portraits of her interviewees.¿ The Times

¿Slimani trusts in her outrage, in the force of her own voice, and the voices of the wome