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Naeem Murr

Biography

Naeem Murr

Naeem Murr is a recipient of numerous awards and scholarships for his writing, and he has published many acclaimed stories, novellas and nonfiction pieces in literary journals. He was a Stanford University Creative Writing Fellow and was recently awarded a Lannan Residency Fellowship. He has been a writer-in-residence at the University of Missouri, Western Michigan University and Northwestern University. Born and raised in London, he has lived in America since his early 20s and currently resides in Chicago. 

Naeem Murr

Books by Naeem Murr

Every Exit Brings You Home
by Naeem Murr - Fiction

As a financial crisis looms, Jamal “Jack” Shaban is trying to save his neighbors from bankruptcy. But who is Jack, really? For his flight attendant colleagues, he’s an object of desire, even love, particularly for his sweetly bawdy Wisconsinite best friend, Birdy. Birdy knows nothing about Dimra, Jack’s traditional Muslim wife, with whom Jack is desperate to have a child. Nor does Dimra know about Jack’s attraction to Marcia: an angry single mom new to the building. The resulting tangle of love, desire and conflict returns Jack to the violence of 1980s Gaza, where a taboo affair nearly destroyed his life. A man of many sides, Jack is a paragon of both desire and hope, someone who has committed to love because the alternative is utter darkness.