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The writing on my forehead / Nafisa Haji.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : William Morrow, c2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: 308 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780061771187
  • 006177118X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.6   22
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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.
Abstract: 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.
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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.

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