Jacqueline St. Joan
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Standalone sequel to My Sisters Made of Light, Jacqueline’s first novel that explored a Pakistani family’s determination to educate women and defend human rights. The Shawl of Midnight is a coming-of-age story, a family saga, and a hero’s journey set in Pakistan, India, and Kashmir. We pick up the story eighteen years later, following young Nafeesa into the depths of family relationships, surprising changes over time and distance, and how...
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Follows three generations of a Pakistani family as they make their way through life in the political, social, and religious maze that is their motherland. Through the life of Ujala, it also tells the story of honor crimes against women and how one woman pushes aside her fears to help other women escape from the impossible situtations in which they find themselves.--from publisher's description.