TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ahmed,Nawaaz
TI  - Radiant fugitives: a novel 
SN  - 9789390679676
U1  - 813.6 AHM 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Berkeley, California
PB  - Counterpoint
KW  - East Indians
KW  - United States
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Muslim families
KW  - Estranged families
KW  - Newborn infants
N2  - "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"--
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