Readalikes: If you enjoyed July's selection . . .

If you enjoyed The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar, then you might also enjoy these books about "exile and estrangement" recommended by Hisham Matar in an interview with John Williams for the New York Times:

• The Day of Judgement by Salvatore Satta
• Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
• Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys

You might also like these books recommended by our discussion group members:

• The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon
• Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
• Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View by Stanley Milgram
• Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
• One Generation After by Eli Wiesel
• House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid
• The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz