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First hardcover edition. |
| Description |
372 pages ; 24 cm |
| 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. |
| Subject |
East Indians -- United States -- Fiction.
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Muslim families -- Fiction.
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Estranged families -- Fiction.
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Newborn infants -- Fiction.
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LGBTQ+ fiction
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FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Lesbian.
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FICTION / Muslim.
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FICTION / Family Life / General.
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East Indians. (OCoLC)fst00901060
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Estranged families. (OCoLC)fst02016378
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Muslim families. (OCoLC)fst01030957
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Newborn infants. (OCoLC)fst01430819
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| ISBN |
9781640094048 (hardcover) |
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1640094040 (hardcover) |
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