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• Title:Radiant fugitives : a novel / Nawaaz Ahmed.
  
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• Author/Creator:Ahmed, Nawaaz, author.
  
• Published/Created:Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2021.
  ©2021
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PS3601.H577 R33 2021
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:East Indians--United States--Fiction.
  Muslim families--Fiction.
  Estranged families--Fiction.
  Newborn infants--Fiction.
  Lesbians--Fiction.
  San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction.
  
• Genre/Form:Domestic fiction.
  Lesbian fiction.
  
• Edition: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.
  
• ISBN:1640094040 hardcover
  9781640094048 hardcover
  9781640094055 electronic book