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The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali

The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali
  • Author(s): Sabina Khan
  • Location(s): Bangladesh
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A timely and honest coming-of-age story that explores the complicated relationship between identity, culture, family, and love. Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali tries her hardest to live up to her conservative Muslim parents’ expectations, but lately she’s finding that impossible to...

The Silent and the Lost

The Silent and the Lost
  • Author(s): Abu Zubair
  • Location(s): Bangladesh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1971

Alex Salim McKensie, a war baby of the 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence, is adopted by the McKensies, an American family that has lost their only son in Vietnam. Years later, Alex falls in love with Sangeeta Rai, but...

Uprising

Uprising
  • Author(s): Tahmima Anam
  • Location(s): Mongla
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Any moment now, we would grow up, and we would become them, waking late and hungry and with a job that had no name On a desolate, sinking island, a group of children witness their mothers living lives of...

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