When I spoke with Luis Jaramillo he told me how stunned he’d been when The Doctor’s Wife (Dzanc, 2012) was named an Oprah Book of the Week.

The Book of Khalid is a picaresque novel that tells the story of two teens at the turn of the 20th century, the dreamy truth-seeker Khalid (which means “eternal”) and the poet Shakib, who migrate from then-Lebanon to America to make their fortunes.