A French Algerian teenager grapples with her sexuality and her faith in a tender coming-of-age drama.
Alissa Wilkinson is a critic at The New York Times and a First-Year MFA Creative Nonfiction Mentor. With a focus on film and cinema, she has been writing about movies since 2005, contributing to various publications including Vox and Rolling Stone, and exploring themes of American mythmaking in her recent book, “We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine.” Alissa has been featured in numerous outlets such as The Dallas Morning News, The Salt Lake Tribune, and The Sydney Morning Herald.
















