Radiant fugitives : a novel / Nawaaz Ahmed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahmed, Nawaaz, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East Indians--United States--Fiction.

East Indians.

Muslim families--Fiction.

Muslim families.

Estranged families--Fiction.

Estranged families.

Newborn infants--Fiction.

Newborn infants.

Lesbians--Fiction.

Lesbians.

United States.

San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction.

San Francisco (Calif.).

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

372 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2021.

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

9781640094048

1640094040

OCLC:

1226803532