Zoe Ferraris
<DIV><B>Zoë Ferraris</B> moved to Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the first Gulf War to live with her then husband and his extended family of Saudi-Palestinian Bedouins. She has an MFA from Columbia University and is the author of two previous novels, <I>Finding Nouf</I> and <I>City of Veils</I>. She lives in San Francisco.</DIV>