02457cam a2200409 i 4500 21834466 OSt 20231007121027.0 201208t20212021cau 000 1 eng 2020048936 9789390679676 9781640094048 (hardcover) 9781640095533 (paperback) 9781640094055 (ebook) DLC eng DLC rda DLC pcc n-us--- PS3601.H577 R33 2021 813.6 AHM/R Ahmed, Nawaaz, author. Radiant fugitives : a novel / Nawaaz Ahmed. First hardcover edition. Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2021. ©2021 372 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "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"-- Provided by publisher. East Indians United States Fiction. Muslim families Fiction. Estranged families Fiction. Newborn infants Fiction. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 813.6 AHM/R 813.6 AHM/R 0 0 ddc 0 0 FIC MES MES ENG 2023-10-07 1 813.6 AHM/R 42806 2026-01-30 10:06:18 2026-01-16 699.00 2023-10-07 BK GR19R2 42574 42574