—Zoë Ferraris, author of City of Veils
Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
1: Monday
2: Tuesday
3: Wednesday
4: Thursday
5: Friday
6: Saturday
7: Sunday
8: Monday
9: Tuesday
10: Wednesday
11: Wednesday Evening
12: Wednesday Night
13: Thursday
14: Thursday Evening
15: Thursday Evening at Bashar’s Café
16: Friday
17: Saturday
18: Saturday Night, Visiting the Homes of Ali ash-Shareefi and Seyyed Abdullahs
19: Saturday Night with Dreams
20: Sunday
21: Sunday Night with a Rock the Size of a Heart
22: Monday
23: Monday Night Dinner at the House of ash-Shareefi
24: Monday Night with Dreams of Layla
25: Tuesday and Layla Is Absent
26: Tuesday Evening
27: Wednesday, Michele Smiles
28: Wednesday, Acid
29: Wednesday, After Michele Dies
30: Wednesday, a Bomb Explodes
31: Wednesday Night
32: Thursday Until Monday’s Dawn
33: Dawn Monday, a Phone Call
34: Dawn Monday, Countdown
35: Pause
36: A Fiction
37: A Bomb
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Back Bay • Reader’s Pick
A conversation with Benjamin Buchholz
Questions and topics for discussion
Acclaim for Benjamin Buchholz’s One Hundred and One Nights
Copyright
The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author. Any references to the United States military or policy are not endorsed by the United States military.
Copyright © 2011 by Benjamin Buchholz
Reading group guide © 2011 by Benjamin Buchholz and Little, Brown and Company
Cover design by Ploy Siripant. Copyright © 2012 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.
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Excerpts from the Holy Quran are based on the translations of Yusuf Ali and M. M. Pickthall.
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