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Bushra Rehman — Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion - with Jeffrey Lofton
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January 5, 2024
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56:59Now PlayingWatch author Bushra Rehman's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose book store in Washington, D.C.
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Razia Mirza grows up amid the wild grape vines and backyard sunflowers of Corona, Queens, with her best friend, Saima, by her side. When a family rift drives the girls apart, Razia's heart is broken. She finds solace in Taslima, a new girl in her close-knit Pakistani-American community. They embark on a series of small rebellions: listening to scandalous music, wearing miniskirts, and cutting school to explore the city.
When Razia is accepted to Stuyvesant, a prestigious high school in Manhattan, the gulf between the person she is and the daughter her parents want her to be, widens. At Stuyvesant, Razia meets Angela and is attracted to her in a way that blossoms into a new understanding. When their relationship is discovered by an Aunty in the community, Razia must choose between her family and her own future.
Punctuated by both joy and loss, full of '80s music and beloved novels, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion is a new classic: a fiercely compassionate coming-of-age story of a girl struggling to reconcile her heritage and faith with her desire to be true to herself.
Bushra Rehman grew up in Corona, Queens. She is co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism, and author of the poetry collection Marianna's Beauty Salon and the dark comedy Corona, one of the New York Public Library's favorite books about NYC .
Rehman will be in conversation with Jeffrey Dale Lofton. Jeffrey Dale Lofton hails from Warm Springs, Georgia, but has called Washington, DC, home for over three decades. During those early years he spent many a night treading the boards of the DC theater and performing arts centers, though he ultimately stepped away from acting for other, more traditional work. He has Master's degrees in both Public Administration and Library and Information Science, and today works as a senior advisor at the Library of Congress, surrounded by books and people who love books--in short, paradise.
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