10 best books of July: the Monitor's picks

What Monitor book critics liked best this month.

6. 'The Return,' by Hisham Matar

The Return Hisham Matar Random House Publishing Group 256 pages

Libyan author Hisham Matar uses this moving, absorbing memoir to follow up on the real-life story behind his award-winning 2006 novel “In the Country of Men.” Writing against the complicated backdrop of Libyan society, Matar tells how he returned to his homeland after three decades of absence to investigate the 1996 disappearance of his father.

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