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Khan, Sorayya

Penguin??Books

Even when we leave them, our cities never leave us.&nbsp;After her Dutch mother's death, Sorayya Khan confronts her grief by revisiting their relationship, her parents' lives, and her own Pakistani-Dutch heritage in a&nbsp;multicultural memoir&nbsp;that unfolds over&nbsp;seven cities&nbsp;and three continents.&nbsp;We Take Our Cities with Us&nbsp;ushers us from Khan's childhood independence forged at her grandparents' home in Lahore; to her adolescence in Pakistan's new capital, Islamabad; to Syracuse and Ithaca, New York, where Khan finds her footing as the mother of young, brown sons in post-9/11 America; to her birthplace, Vienna, where her parents die; and finally to Amsterdam and Maastricht,&nbsp;the cities of her mother's conflicted youth. In Khan's gripping telling of her immigrant experience, she shows us what it is to raise children and lose parents in worlds other than your own.&nbsp;Drawing on family history, geopolitics, and art in this stunning&nbsp;story of loss, identity, and rediscovery, Khan beautifully illuminates the complexities of our evolving global world and its most important constant: love.&nbsp;

We Take Our Cities with Us: A Memoir (Machete)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Mad Creek Books

City of Spies

In this intimate coming-of-age story set in the late 1970s, a young girl struggles to make sense of the chaos around her during Pakistan’s political upheaval, where the military revolts, the embassy burns, and a terrible secret tears her world apart.
Eleven-year-old Aliya Shah lives a double life in Islamabad, Pakistan—at home with her Pakistani father and Dutch mother, and at the American School, where Aliya tries to downplay that she is a “half-and-half.” But when a hit-and-run driver kills the son of the family’s servant, Sadiq, who is also Aliya’s dear friend, her world is turned upside down. After she discovers the truth behind the tragedy—a terrible secret that burdens her heart—her conflicted loyalties are tested as never before.
Based on the author’s own experiences growing up in Islamabad, City of Spies offers a poignant and dramatic portrait of a tumultuous time, as seen through the eyes of a brave and compassionate young heroine struggling to find her place in the gray area between loyalty and complicity, family and country.
Revised edition: This edition of City of Spies includes editorial revisions.

Literature & Fiction

United States

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