<DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV><B>*A 2011 National Book Award Finalist*</B></DIV></DIV><DIV><I></I> </DIV><DIV><I>A spellbinding story of renunciation, conversion, and radicalism from Pulitzer Prize-finalist biographer Deborah Baker</I></DIV><DIV><BR>What drives a woman raised in a postwar New York City suburb to convert to Islam, abandon her country and Jewish faith, and embrace a life of permanent exile in Pakistan? <I>The Convert</I>, a finalist for the National Book Award and a <I>Publishers Weekly </I>Best Book of 2011, tells the gripping story of how Margaret Marcus of Larchmont became Maryam Jameelah of Lahore.</DIV></DIV></DIV>