Jen­nifer Steil is the award-win­ning author of the nov­els Exile Music (Viking, May 5), The Ambas­sador’s Wife (Dou­ble­day, 2015), and the mem­oir The Woman Who Fell From the Sky (Broad­way Books, 2010) about her tenure as edi­tor of a news­pa­per in Yemen. She cur­rent­ly lives between Uzbek­istan and France.