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Hello, how's it going out there? This is The Other People Show. I'm Brad Listy and I'm in Los Angeles. It's good to be with you. Thanks for listening. I hope you're doing okay wherever you happen to be. Don't forget to subscribe to this podcast wherever you listen. You can also

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slash other ppl pod. I have a great episode for you today.

My guest is Leila Sleimani,

best-selling author of a new novel called Watch Us Dance.

I feel that the character is really alive when I begin to see the contradiction inside the character and when something

is resisting in the character. I don't want to write about heroes or about saints or about

caricature in general. I'm not interested in in that I want to write about ordinary

people people like you and me and about the fact also that we all have

inside us we have dark sides and we have also contradictory aspiration we want

at the same time passion and security we We want comfort and we want to adventure.

And I think it's interesting to explore that in every human being.

All right. That was Lela Slemani.

Her new novel is called Watch Us Dance,

available in the United States from Viking in a wonderful translation by Sam

Taylor. Watch Us Dance is the second in a trilogy of novels that Lelais Lema

Slamani is writing that reflect her own family's history in Morocco. And in this new novel, which published just yesterday, Lelah Slimani is telling

the story of an interracial family in post-colonial Morocco in the 1960s. It's a period of time

in a period in her family history when her own parents were coming of age. And this is, in many ways, a coming of age story.

It is about a country, the country of Morocco, newly independent, liberated from French colonial

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