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    American Inequality: On Laila Lalami’s ‘Conditional Citizens’

    by Hope Reese Apr 22, 2020 4 minutes

    The day after Donald Trump was elected in November 2016, Laila Lalami’s daughter asked her a question: “He doesn’t have to make us leave, right?”

    Lalami, a Moroccan American who lives in Los Angeles, has been a citizen for decades; she assured her daughter that it would not happen. In reality, she wasn’t sure.

    “Every time I have thought about this conversation––and I have thought about it dozens of times, in my sleepless nights since the election––I have felt less certain,” she writes in her new essay collection, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America.

    Lalami has published four novels—most recently the bestselling —this is , , and .

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