Radiant Fugitives

Radiant Fugitives
Nawaaz Ahmed
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 384pg
3 Aug 2021 US
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9781640094048
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A dazzling, operatic debut novel following three generations of a Muslim Indian family confronted with a nation on the brink of change. Working as a consultant for Kamala Harris' s attorney general campaign in Obama-era San Francisco, Seema has constructed a successful life for herself in the West, despite still struggling with her father' s long-ago decision to exile her from the family after she came out as lesbian. Now, nine months pregnant and estranged from the Black father of her unborn son, Seema seeks the company of those who once renounced her- her ailing mother, Nafeesa, traveling alone to California from Chennai, and her devoutly religious sister, Tahera, a doctor living in Texas with her husband and children. But instead of a joyful reconciliation anticipating the birth of a child, the events of this fateful week unearth years of betrayal, misunderstanding, and complicated notions of love-a tapestry of emotions as beautiful and disparate as the era itself. Told from the point of view of Seema' s child at the moment of his birth and infused with the writing of the Quran and the classic poetry of Wordsworth and Keats, Radiant Fugitives is a moving tale set against recent events of American political life of one family grappling with forgiveness and enduring love.
A Library Journal Title to WatchNawaaz Ahmed' s Radiant Fugitives (Counterpoint, August 3) is expansive, graceful, and astounding in its tenderness; it' s a novel that untangles the infinite layers a love can conjure. --Bryan Washington, VultureNawaaz Ahmed' s remarkable debut is both a profound meditation on political and social injustices, and an intimate, delicately wrought examination of the complications inherent to issues of desire, identity, and family . . . Political and poetic, Ahmed' s novel is a provocative meditation on forgiveness, compassion, and family. --Kristin Iversen, Refinery29I' ve never read a novel like Nawaaz Ahmed' s Radiant Fugitives, and, I kid you not, I' ve been waiting for this tremendous, complex, moving novel for years, but never expected to receive it . . . There is so much of life in this book. --Anita Felicelli, Electric LiteratureThis dazzling, heartrending debut follows two Indian sisters and their mother as they work to patch up fractures in their family . . . Ahmed brilliantly maps the tension between the three women with emotional acuity, and as Seema' s pregnancy unfolds, Ahmed slowly builds to a showdown, culminating in a shattering and unforgettable conclusion. This is a gem. --Publishers Weekly (starred review) Rising star. --Library Journal "Radiant Fugitives indeed glows. This is such a beautiful novel, full of light and luminous sentences. Reading it felt like basking in a generous and lucid intelligence. Ahmed writes his characters and their worlds with honesty and compassion. This is a writer to watch, a voice we need. " --Matthew Salesses, author of Disappear Doppelganger DisappearLyrical and deeply moving, Nawaaz Ahmed' s Radiant Fugitives is about the search for love, acceptance, and family, both chosen and received. The novel is big-hearted and clear-eyed, a stellar debut. --Vanessa Hua, author of A River of Stars"A tender and heartbreaking love letter to San Francisco, to family, faith, tradition, and all the ways we get lost in them, Radiant Fugitives is richly drawn, poetic, and mesmerizing. Nawaaz Ahmed is a marvelous and intricate storyteller. " --Natashia Deon, author of The Perishing and GraceElegantly crafted and luminously written, Nawaaz Ahmed' s first novel is a fearless exploration of the clash between identity, sexuality, and religion. --Manil Suri, author of The City of Devi"Radiant Fugitives is a rare marvel, an intimate epic of faith and family, love and politics, knit together by a magical omniscience of profound compassion. " --Peter Ho Davies, author of A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself "Nawaaz Ahmed' s remarkable debut novel brings to life a loving family torn apart by parental rejection, clashing values, sibling rivalry, and geographical and emotional distances. Radiant Fugitives is a profound and in-depth exploration of our common humanity, and the ways in which we are more alike than different. " Wally Lamb, New York Times bestselling author of I Know This Much Is TrueWith a fine sense of the complex relationships among women kin, Nawaaz Ahmed has crafted an exquisite tale that explores the contradictions, love, compassion, and forgiveness in a family divided by tradition, sexuality, rivalry, religion, patriarchy, and geography. --Susan Abulhawa, author of Against the Loveless World
Nawaaz Ahmed was born in Tamil Nadu, India. Before becoming a novelist, he was a computer scientist, researching search algorithms for Yahoo. He holds an MFA from University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and is the winner of several Hopwood Awards. He has completed residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Djerassi, VCCA, and Bread Loaf. He' s also a Kundiman and Lambda Literary Fellow. His fiction has appeared in the Sonora Review and been performed at the Sterling Music Room. He currently lives in Brooklyn.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781640094048
Published: 3 Aug 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Counterpoint
Publisher: Counterpoint
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 384

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