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020 _a9781640094048
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050 0 0 _aPS3601.H577
_bR33 2021
082 0 0 _a813.6
_bAHM/R
100 1 _aAhmed, Nawaaz,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aRadiant fugitives :
_ba novel /
_cNawaaz Ahmed.
250 _aFirst hardcover edition.
264 1 _aBerkeley, California :
_bCounterpoint,
_c2021.
264 4 _c©2021
300 _a372 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
520 _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.
650 0 _aEast Indians
_zUnited States
_vFiction.
650 0 _aMuslim families
_vFiction.
650 0 _aEstranged families
_vFiction.
650 0 _aNewborn infants
_vFiction.
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