Radiant fugitives : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 1640094040
- ISBN: 9781640094048
- ISBN: 1640094040
- ISBN: 9781640094048
- ISBN: 9781640094048
- ISBN: 1640094040
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Physical Description:
372 pages ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First hardcover edition.
- Publisher: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "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. |
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Subject: | East Indians United States Fiction Muslim families Fiction Estranged families Fiction Newborn infants Fiction Lesbians Fiction San Francisco (Calif.) Fiction |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Lesbian fiction. |
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Plumb Memorial Library - Shelton | FIC AHMED (Text) | 34025140520609 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |