A former Washington Post reporter who won a 1992 Pulitzer for her journalism, Adams invests her first novel with rigorous research. Yet she also brings alive the harrowing experiences and nuanced conflicts of her characters: a group of young Algerian men who flee their homeland to escape daily violence and jihadist conscription, only to find that in America they still can not escape the pressures of “terrorism” in its many forms, no matter how much they would like to.
