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.

The Return
Hisham Matar
Random House Publishing Group
256 pages