You Are from Paradise

You Are From Paradise

A True Story

"You are from Paradise." Those were the first words a young Lebanese man ever spoke to the girl who would upend his life - a stranger he mistook for an angel in a university café in Bradford, England. He didn't know her name yet. He didn't know that this one unplanned sentence would become the title of the story you're about to read, or that it would turn out to be both a blessing and a curse.

This isn't a novel in the traditional sense, and it isn't a dry po...