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The river, the town : a novel / Farah Ali.
Van Pelt Library PR9540.9.A54 R58 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ali, Farah, 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Pakistan--Fiction.
- Families.
- Belonging (Social psychology)--Fiction.
- Belonging (Social psychology).
- Poverty--Fiction.
- Poverty.
- Country life--Pakistan--Fiction.
- Country life.
- Climatic changes--Fiction.
- Climatic changes.
- Love--Fiction.
- Love.
- Pakistan--Fiction.
- Pakistan.
- Physical Description:
- 211 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, MI : Dzanc Books, 2023.
- Summary:
- In the rural town in Pakistan where Baadal grows up, children are named like talismans to sustain life and ward off unhappiness. At seventeen, Baadal has come to understand why his parents gave him that name, with hopes that their Big River will one day flow wide again, and their thirst will be quenched after years of drought. But in the final year of his schooling, abundance seems impossibly far away. As his parents' marriage--full of rage, despair, and often violence--reaches a breaking point, the only comfort Baadal can afford is a budding kinship with Meena, a divorced older woman he meets on the banks of the drying river. Meena has only just escaped her abusive husband, but her resistance to remarry soon gives way to the promise of stability and companionship that Baadal offers. Together, they leave the Town in search of greater fortunes in the City."-- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9781950539888
- 1950539881
- OCLC:
- 1369528638
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