'In this crackling novel, a bookish Iranian in exile retraces the journey she took with her father, and finds love along the way.' -The New York Times Book Review, Paperback Row 'Ferociously intelligent.With intricacy and humor, Van der Vliet Oloomi relays Zebra's brainy, benighted struggles as a tragicomic picaresque whose fervid logic and cerebral whimsy recall the work of Bolaño and Borges.” -The New York Times Book Review 1 Brooklyn, Read It Forward, Entropy Magazine, Chicago Review of Books, iBooks and Publishers Weekly 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.Įntertainment Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, Boston Globe, Fodor's, Fast Company, Refinery29, Nylon, Los Angeles Review of Books, Book Riot, The Millions, Electric Literature, Bitch, Hello Giggles, Literary Hub, Shondaland, Bustle, Brit & Co., Vol. Starring a heroine as quirky as Don Quixote, as brilliant as Virginia Woolf, as worldly as Miranda July, and as spirited as Lady Bird, Call Me Zebra is “hilarious and poignant, painting a magnetic portrait of a young woman you can’t help but want to know more about” ( Harper’s Bazaar). They push and pull across the Mediterranean, wondering if their love-or lust-can free Zebra from her past.

Their connection is magnetic, and fraught. Books are her only companions-until she meets Ludo. Alone and in exile, she leaves New York for Barcelona, retracing the journey she and her father made from Iran to the United States years ago. Zebra is the last in a line of anarchists, atheists, and autodidacts.

Named a Best Book by: Entertainment Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, Boston Globe, Fodor's, Fast Company, Refinery29, Nylon, Los Angeles Review of Books, Book Riot, The Millions, Electric Literature, Bitch, Hello Giggles, Literary Hub, Shondaland, Bustle, Brit & Co., Vol. Longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award * An Amazon Best Book of the Year * A Publishers Weekly Bestseller

“A tragicomic picaresque whose fervid logic and cerebral whimsy recall the work of Bolaño and Borges.” - New York Times Book Review “Hearken ye fellow misfits, migrants, outcasts, squint-eyed bibliophiles, library-haunters and book stall-stalkers: Here is a novel for you.” - Wall Street Journal Winner of the John Gardner Award for Fiction Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Call me zebra