August Book Club: 'Radiant Fugitives' by Nawaaz Ahmed
August 30, 2021
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August 30, 2021
August Book Club: 'Radiant Fugitives' by Nawaaz Ahmed
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August Book Club: 'Radiant Fugitives' by Nawaaz Ahmed
Summary
The Forum Book Club pick for August 2021 is Nawaaz Ahmed’s debut novel “Radiant Fugitives.” Set in San Francisco in and around 2010, it tells the story of Seema, a lesbian and political organizer with doubts about the efficacy of politics even as she works on the campaigns of President Obama, District Attorney Kamala Harris and California’s 2008 proposition on gay marriage. Over the course of the final five days of her pregnancy, she tries to reconnect with her estranged, terminally ill mother who has travelled from India for the birth, and her devout Muslim sister, in from Texas. Narrated by Seema’s newborn son, the novel weaves together three generations’ stories, drawing inspiration from the Quran and the poetry of Wordsworth and Keats.
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