Adrift

by Marcus Youssef

A group of almost-over-the-hill urban Egyptian hipsters gathers every night on a Cairo houseboat where they smoke weed, gab on their cell phones, and rag on everything they think is messing up their lives. Led by their master of ceremonies, a near catatonic petty bureaucrat named Anis, they get baked and try to forget that secularists like them are being shunted to the sidelines in the wave of alleged "fundamentalist" Islamic politics sweeping Egypt...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889225850
• ISBN13: 9780889225855
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.5"