Attempted Mountain Murder

This large print edition features an easy-to-read larger type size while preserving the complete text of the original edition. Winner of the National Book Award One of TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 One of NPR's Books We Love of 2025 One of the Washington Independent Review of Books's Favorite Books of 2025 One of the Globe and Mai's 100 Best Books of 2025 One of BookPage's Best Fiction Books of 2025 One of Shelf Awareness's Best Books of 2025 One of Apple's Best Books of 2025In Beirut, sixty-three-year-old Raja and his mother live side by side. Raja relishes books, meditative walks, and solitude. Zalfa, his octogenarian mother, demands to know every detail of Raja's work life and love life, boundaries be damned. When Raja receives an invite to an all-expenses-paid writing residency in America, the timing couldn't be better. It arrives on the heels of a series of disasters that have left Raja longing for peace and quiet. But what seems a stroke of good fortune soon leads Raja to recount and relive the very disasters and betrayals he wishes to forget.