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- From the Man Booker Prize nominee
- Compared to The Handmaid's Tale in terms of its poignancy
- Best book of the year according to Bookpage, NPR, Washington Post, and The Economist
She has 10 minutes and 38 seconds left to remember what can't be fixed. The taste of spicy goat's milk and her home in a distant province, her despotic father, the aroma of coffee and cardamom in the Istanbul brothel she found herself in after running away from home... 10 minutes and 38 seconds to recall her friends and acquaintances - exiles like her. To remember everyone who had hurt her and the hundreds of women who were sold like commodities on the market. There is so little time to retrieve so much from her memory. Her heart is about to stop beating, but before that she still has these infinite 10 minutes and 38 seconds to tell her story. She is Lila Tequila. And everyone needs to know what happened to her...
