SEX AND LIES: True Stories of Women's Intimate Lives in the Arab World

While in her native Morocco promoting her novel Adele, Slimani began meeting women who confided the dark secrets of their sexual lives. In Morocco, adultery, abortion, homosexuality, prostitution, and sex outside of marriage are all punishable by law, and women have only two choices--be a wife or a virgin. Combines harrowing testimonies with Slimani's commentary.