Romance, drama, and care surrounding issues of PTSD and sex.... a heart-warming page turner.
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Romance, drama, and care surrounding issues of PTSD and sex.... a heart-warming page turner.
Kirkus calls Queenie ‘A black Bridget Jones, perfectly of the moment’ and I am deeply inclined to agree.
It’s part rom-com, part meditation on family and tradition, and part, well, erotic stories for Punjabi widows.
“In 1945 our parents went away and left us in the care of two men who may have been criminals.”
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).