02163cam a2200361 i 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300800410003001000170007102000180008802000310010602000310013702000270016804000280019504200080022304300120023105000260024308200170026910000280028624500500031425000290036426400490039326400110044230000230045333600260047633700280050233800270053052011090055765000420166665000300170865000330173865000300177121834466OSt20231007121027.0201208t20212021cau           000 1 eng    a  2020048936  a9789390679676  a9781640094048q(hardcover)  a9781640095533q(paperback)  z9781640094055q(ebook)  aDLCbengcDLCerdadDLC  apcc  an-us---00aPS3601.H577bR33 202100a813.6bAHM/R1 aAhmed, Nawaaz,eauthor.10aRadiant fugitives :ba novel /cNawaaz Ahmed.  aFirst hardcover edition. 1aBerkeley, California :bCounterpoint,c2021. 4c©2021  a372 pages ;c24 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  a"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"--cProvided by publisher. 0aEast IndianszUnited StatesvFiction. 0aMuslim familiesvFiction. 0aEstranged familiesvFiction. 0aNewborn infantsvFiction.