The Lucky Ones

The Lucky Ones (Crown, July), a historical and haunting tale of survival that portrays the fractures within one Muslim family living under curfew alongside the anti-Muslim violence in independent India that looms outside of their living quarters and pervades their lives, told from the perspective of...

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Published inPoets & writers Vol. 52; no. 5; p. 64
Main Author Chowdhary, Zara
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Poets & Writers, Inc 01.09.2024
Poets & Writers, Incorporated
Subjects
Historical fiction
Personal experiences
Writers
Writing
India
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Summary:The Lucky Ones (Crown, July), a historical and haunting tale of survival that portrays the fractures within one Muslim family living under curfew alongside the anti-Muslim violence in independent India that looms outside of their living quarters and pervades their lives, told from the perspective of an adolescent girl who forges her own belonging with each written word. First Lines: "'On February Twenty-seventh' in 837 C.E., Halley's comet is recorded on its fifteenth passage. In a sense it was a reteaching, because that's why seven-year-old Zara first picked up a pencil and scribbled in the back of her school notebooks, to find relief from the ghosts of her childhood spent in a home filled with violences both visible and invisible.
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ISSN:0891-6136