Radiant fugitives : a novel /

Radiant fugitives : a novel /

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Author / Creator:	Ahmed, Nawaaz, author.
Edition:	First hardcover edition.
Imprint:	Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2021. ©2021
Description:	372 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	East Indians -- United States -- Fiction. Muslim families -- Fiction. Estranged families -- Fiction. Newborn infants -- Fiction. Lesbians -- Fiction. East Indians. Estranged families. Muslim families. Newborn infants. San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction. United States. Fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12623469

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ISBN:	9781640094048 1640094040 9781640094055
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"--

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Summary:	Working as a political activist in the early days of the Obama presidency, Seema still struggles with her father's long-ago decision to exile her from the family after she came out as lesbian, forcing her to construct a new life in the West. Now, nine months pregnant and estranged from the father of her unborn son, Seema seeks reconciliation with the family that once renounced her.
Physical Description:	372 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:	9781640094048 1640094040 9781640094055