TY - BOOK AU - Haji,Nafisa TI - The writing on my forehead / SN - 9780061771187 U1 - 813.6 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New York : PB - William Morrow, KW - Muslim families KW - Fiction KW - Mothers and daughters KW - Muslim women N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -