The writing on my forehead /
Haji, Nafisa.
The writing on my forehead / Nafisa Haji. - 1st ed. - New York : William Morrow, c2009. - 308 p. ; 24 cm.
A moving meditation on the meaning of family, tradition, and the ties that bind. "The Writing on My Forehead" is lyrical and touching--Khaled Hosseini.
Free-spirited and rebellious Muslim-American Saira Qader rejected the constricting notions of family, duty, obligation, and fate, choosing instead to become a journalist, but when tragedy strikes five years later Saira looks to the stories of those who came before--her grandparents, a beloved aunt, her mother and father--and discovers that choice is not always our own, and that faith is not just an intellectual preference.
9780061771187 006177118X
2009281120
Muslim families -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Muslim women -- Fiction.
813.6
The writing on my forehead / Nafisa Haji. - 1st ed. - New York : William Morrow, c2009. - 308 p. ; 24 cm.
A moving meditation on the meaning of family, tradition, and the ties that bind. "The Writing on My Forehead" is lyrical and touching--Khaled Hosseini.
Free-spirited and rebellious Muslim-American Saira Qader rejected the constricting notions of family, duty, obligation, and fate, choosing instead to become a journalist, but when tragedy strikes five years later Saira looks to the stories of those who came before--her grandparents, a beloved aunt, her mother and father--and discovers that choice is not always our own, and that faith is not just an intellectual preference.
9780061771187 006177118X
2009281120
Muslim families -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Muslim women -- Fiction.
813.6