'We Need New Stories' Asks: Why Are People Prone To Believing The Largest Of Lies?
Author Nesrine Malik is reclaiming the terms of defense against ignorance and bigotry, ones that she says have become rote in the mouths of some and insults in the mouths of others.
"Throughout my childhood I was fed this ancestral myth that still remains fixed for many of my generation of Maliks. It is sort of a private family madness," writes Nesrine Malik in the introduction to her debut book, We Need New Stories.
She's speaking of a bit of family folklore that has been passed down through her family from generation to generation: The notion that in their homeland of Sudan, a forebear owned a
