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Lulu in Marrakech

by Diane Johnson
Justine Eyre
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Lulu Sawyer arrives in Marrakech, Morocco, hoping to rekindle her romance with a worldly Englishman, Ian Drumm. It’s the perfect cover for her assignment with the American CIA: tracing the flow of money from well-heeled donors to radical Islamic groups. While spending her days poolside and her nights at lively dinner parties, Lulu observes the fragile coexistence of two cultures that, if not clashing yet, have begun to show signs of fracture. Beneath the surface of this polite expatriate community lies a more sinister world laced not only with double standards, but with double agents. The more Lulu immerses herself in the workings of Marrakech, the more questions emerge; when bombs explode, the danger is palpable.
“Like Jane Austen [Diane Johnston] steps out of the frame to anatomize her characters with sudden insight; like Virginia Woolf she creeps back in to record their inappropriate thoughts–and their consternation at having them.” –Newsweek

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  • Release date

    October 7, 2008

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415946312
      • File size: 277971 KB
      • Duration: 09:39:06

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      When Lulu Sawyer heads to Morocco, she's on assignment for the CIA and hoping to heat up her relationship with a well-heeled expat Englishman. As she tracks the flow of money to radical Islamic groups, she pursues romance and watches the local society. Lulu is an unlikely, even unbelievable, CIA agent, so the light California-girl voice that narrator Justine Eyre chooses for her is just right. Eyre also manages to pace the book well--no mean feat, as the author can't seem to decide among sociological observation, romantic comedy, and mystery. While the accents chosen for the men, in particular, remind one of daytime soap opera, that doesn't damage the listening experience, which is a touch confused, but entertaining. A.C.S. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 7, 2008
      Fans of Johnson's NBA finalist Le Divorce
      will know what to expect: a fish-out-of-water story about a clash of cultures. Still, the tone and scope of this agreeable if quiet story owes more to the author's early work—Persian Nights
      , in particular—than the better-known ones about Franco-American culture clashes. Like that 1987 book, this one has more than a soupçon of politics thrown into its cultural comedy of manners. Lulu Sawyer is a CIA agent who arrives in Morocco, both to rekindle her romance with worldly English boyfriend Ian and to trace the flow of Western money to radical Islamic groups. She meets with characters both Western and Eastern, which allows for some typically Johnsonian observations (“ not so common among Algerians.... It's usually the Turks,” opines one character). The book works best in small moments and in scenes involving the supporting characters, but the central plot—about Lulu and Ian's relationship—never quite catches fire, and Lulu-as-CIA-agent seems tired and unnecessary. Most fans will wade through the overdetermined plot to get to the sly asides and the astute observation that are and always have been Johnson's forte.

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  • English

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