Joumana Khatib
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1,079 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 4 Sep
Joumana Khatib’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm going to mention Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer.
This is also on sale June 9th.
So Andrew Sean Greer won the Pulitzer for his novel Less, which was about this sort of hapless middle-aged novelist named Arthur Less who would travel the world rather than attend or even think about his ex's wedding, which is deeply relatable.
Yeah.
There is a sequel, Les is Lost.
This is a new universe.
So this follows a recent graduate who goes to Italy with the sort of hope of becoming an archivist.
And it sounds a little arrested development sort of on the Italian Riviera, if I'm being honest, because this kid, he's sort of feckless and whatever.
And we don't know his name until the very end.
So I'm not going to spoil that story.
He gets there.
There's this sort of grand dame, you know, this 92-year-old baronessa whose every whim he sort of has to cater to.
There's a cast of characters that are living on site, an artist and a sort of randy older guy.
And chaos ensues.
And there is a romance that blooms midway through.
And I think also this sounds a lot like Greer's own life because...
First of all, he splits his time between Venice and San Francisco, and Venice does play a part in this novel.
But more to the point...
Greer was the director of a writing residency in Tuscany that was owned by a baronessa.
So he has worked for a baronessa.
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