There are many different strands in this story — it’s at once a thriller, a meditation on modern geopolitics, and a dive into Indigenous history — yet Dimaline makes it fit together perfectly.
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There are many different strands in this story — it’s at once a thriller, a meditation on modern geopolitics, and a dive into Indigenous history — yet Dimaline makes it fit together perfectly.
Billed as "Antigone in the age of ISIS," Shamsie tells the tale of three British Muslim siblings - Isma and twins Aneeka and Parvaiz - who grow up without a father (he had been killed en route to Guantánamo).