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Name: Sweetness in the Belly
Author: Camilla Gibb
Year: 2005
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Popularity: 2.4
Genres/categories: Fiction, Award winners, Historical fiction, Religion
Culture: Africa, Canada

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Winner of the Trillium Book Award in 2006.

Like Brick Lane and The Kite Runner, Camilla Gibb's widely praised new novel is a poignant and intensely atmospheric look beyond the stereotypes of Islam. After her hippie British parents are murdered, Lilly is raised at a Sufi shrine in Morocco. As a young woman she goes on pilgrimage to Harar, Ethiopia, where she teaches Qur'an to children and falls in love with an idealistic doctor. But even swathed in a traditional headscarf, Lilly can't escape being marked as a foreigner. Forced to flee Ethiopia for England, she must once again confront the riddle of who she is and where she belongs.
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