Press releases, book details, review quotes, and downloadable images for The Name She Carries (November 10, 2026) and Brothers in Service (September 1, 2026), by A.M. Soliman.
Three months after his debut, A.M. Soliman — a New Jersey trial attorney whose practice includes civil-rights litigation — publishes a second novel drawn from the other side of his working life: the client who wasn’t believed. The Name She Carries, out November 10, follows a young lawyer who inherits her father’s final case on behalf of a Black woman dismissed in an emergency room.
Mary Adel grew up watching her father command courtrooms. Now Zach Adel is running out of time — and the case of his career has just passed into her hands. When the Reynolds family refuses to settle — they don’t want money; they want the truth read into the record — Mary takes the case that will define her: a Black woman dismissed in an emergency room, four words typed into her chart, and a hospital betting that no jury will call it what it was. To see it through, Mary must stand up to her own firm — and learn the difference between inheriting a name and earning it.
Soliman wrote the book from the lawyer’s side of the table: years of sitting across from people whose accounts had been doubted by the institutions meant to help them, and a question about what a father actually hands a daughter — protection, honesty, or the courage to stand up when it costs her something.
A.M. Soliman has spent more than two decades in New Jersey courtrooms. His first novel, Brothers in Service, published September 1, follows one New Jersey family from the morning of September 11, 2001 through the twenty-five years that came after — and what that single day did to them.
Omar Bakari walks out of the World Trade Center covered in ash and comes home to New Jersey. His twin sons answer that morning in opposite ways. Ali turns to the Constitution and becomes a civil-rights lawyer. Adam enlists. Each is convinced he has found the right way to protect the family; each finds the other’s choice harder to forgive than he expected. Then something happens during Adam’s deployment in Iraq that he cannot put into words and Ali cannot resolve the way he resolves everything else — by arguing it. The silence that follows lasts eighteen years, until Ali’s son Elias starts asking about the uncle nobody will discuss.
The novel is not about the attacks. It is about the quarter-century afterward — the suspicion, the wars, the small daily demands to prove you belong — and what it does to a family when each member answers those demands differently.
Before entering the law, Soliman was a journalist: a newspaper reporter, a columnist for The Record, a commentator on CNN and NPR, and the producer and director of the 2003 PBS documentary Born in the USA: Muslim Americans. His opinion writing received a New Jersey Press Association award.
A.M. Soliman is a trial attorney in New Jersey whose practice includes civil-rights litigation. Before entering the law he was a journalist: a newspaper reporter, a columnist for The Record, a commentator on CNN and NPR, and the producer and director of the 2003 PBS documentary Born in the USA: Muslim Americans. His opinion writing received a New Jersey Press Association award. His fiction draws on the world he knows from the inside: courtrooms, families, and the institutions that decide who gets believed. He is the author of Brothers in Service and The Name She Carries. He lives and practices in New Jersey.
Short version: A.M. Soliman is a trial attorney and the author of Brothers in Service and The Name She Carries. Before entering the law he was a journalist and a PBS documentary director. He lives and practices in New Jersey.
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The author is available for interviews, author events, panels, and book-club discussions — in person in the New Jersey and Philadelphia area, or by video anywhere. Review copies are available as a digital galley through NetGalley or as an EPUB on request. A free reading group guide is available to book clubs and libraries, and the author joins book-club discussions by video at no charge.
Media contact: ahmed@amsoliman.com
