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Radiant fugitives : a novel
- Title
- Radiant fugitives : a novel / Nawaaz Ahmed.
- Author
- Ahmed, Nawaaz
- Publication
- Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2021.
- ©2021
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 21-8048 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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Details
- Description
- 372 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Raised in India, Seema is the beloved daughter of a commanding, erudite, Romantic-poetry-loving doctor father who cut her off when she came out to him as a lesbian. Now living alone in San Francisco, estranged from her African American ex-husband, Seema is one week away from delivering a baby boy, Ishraaq. Ishraaq's arrival has brought to Seema's side, for the first time in 15 years, her terminally ill mother, Nafeesa, and her devoutly religious, hijab-wearing sister Tahera, an ob/gyn living with her husband and two young children in Irving, Texas. But there is to be no easy reconciliation. Instead, this fateful week, narrated by the new-born Ishraaq, ends in an emergency delivery, revealing both a family and a country in distress. The characters confront the complex tensions in their relationships and within their innermost selves, even as their lives are upended by the vandalism of a family mosque in Irving during the lead-up to President Obama's first mid-term elections. Ishraaq must make sense of the broken family and the complicated world that awaits him"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- Lesbian fiction.
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-183
- ISBN
- 1640094040
- 9781640094048
- LCCN
- 2020048936
- OCLC
- 1226803532
- Author
- Ahmed, Nawaaz, author.
- Title
- Radiant fugitives : a novel / Nawaaz Ahmed.
- Publisher
- Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First hardcover edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-183JFE 21-8048