After two decades during which she barely saw Seema because of her husband’s homophobia, Nafeesa has traveled from Chennai to San Francisco, fueled by remorse. It’s an audacious choice, but Radiant Fugitives is an audacious novel, revealing in its opening pages that Seema has died in a Bay Area emergency ward while her estranged ex-husband, Bill, waits with her ailing mother, Nafeesa. ![]() A lesbian, she is pregnant with the soon-to-be-born Ishraaq, who narrates the novel from the womb. Ahmed’s prose is full of close-up particulars, but the novel’s sensibility is operatic and transcendent and searching.Īhmed’s book unfolds during the Obama years Seema works as a consultant on Kamala Harris’s campaign for California attorney general. Seema becomes a political activist in San Francisco Tahera, an orthodox Muslim doctor, married with two children in Irvine, Texas. ![]() In Nawaaz Ahmed’s debut novel, Radiant Fugitives, their words help shape the lives of two strikingly dissimilar Tamil Muslim sisters who grow up in Chennai, India. ![]() ![]() The earnest grandeur of Romantic poets such as John Keats or William Wordsworth may have fallen out of fashion, but their legacy perseveres.
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