Call me zebra "Premio PEN/ Faulkner 2019"

Sinopsis
After the death of her father, an
exiled Iranian man of letters, the
bookish twenty-two-year-old Zebra
finds herself alone in New York and
decides to retrace the steps of her
traumatic flight with her family from
their homeland in the 1990s, hoping
that in the process she will be
inspired to write a major manifesto
on literature. Her first stop is
Barcelona, where she meets the
Italian Ludo, who becomes her lover,
intellectual sparring partner and
travelling companion in her
picaresque meanderings around
Catalonia. A natural-born raconteur,
Zebra takes the reader on an
irresistible journey through her
thoughts, as she conceives
elaborate theories about art and is
increasingly convinced that her
mother has been reincarnated as a
cockatoo.