Publisher's Synopsis
"The Shawl of Midnight is a family saga, a coming-of-age story, and a hero's journey set in a world between worlds. Politically, Kashmir is land contested by Pakistan and India; yet here, birds know no boundaries, wide-ranging mountains seem to have been arising forever from nothing at all, and sister-rivers transport life throughout. Within this world, we watch young Nafeesa discover her complex heritage: the "honor" codes her grandparents broke, the lives her aunties built as "she-lions" fighting for a gentler world, especially for women. The "Line of Control" here is both real and metaphorical as Nafeesa and her now-scattered family respond to accidents, deceptions, misplaced fears and essential hopes, the dark silences of midnight and the sky's uncertain protection. Like Nafeesa, we are drawn into Kulraj Singh's extended family to learn how we are shaped, what we are made of, where home truly is"--.
