New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2016). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which creates a "portrait of a man and an era of profound political and social upheaval. Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, [it] follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS." SIGNED on the title page with both his English and Arabic signatures, and dated in October 2016. 294 pp. ISBN: 978-0802125767.