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SUMMARY:LOCAL AUTHOR VISIT: DUR E AZIZ AMNA
DESCRIPTION:Millburn author Dur e Aziz Amna will read from and discuss her 
 newly published novel\, A Splintering.\n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\n\nDur e Aziz 
 Amna is the author of A Splintering\, winner of the Stanfords Prize for 
 Fiction and a BBC Book Club pick. Her previous novel\, American Fever\, won 
 the South Asian Book Award and the APALA Award for Literature. Her work 
 also appears in the New York Times\, Financial Times\, and Al Jazeera\, 
 among others. She was selected as Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2022 and has won 
 the Salam Prize and the Financial Times / Bodley Head Essay Prize. She is a 
 graduate of Yale College and the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the 
 University of Michigan. Born and raised in Pakistan\, she currently lives 
 in Millburn\, NJ.\n\nABOUT THE BOOK:\n\n\n\n"A lacerating novel by a writer 
 of great insight and deep compassion." --Mohsin Hamid\, author of The Last 
 White Man\n\n\n\nIn a village in rural Pakistan\, Tara is waiting and 
 watching. The smell of dung and dust hangs over her world. She is desperate 
 to leave the petty life of the village and escape the iron grip of her 
 violent\, unpredictable brother. Marrying a middle-class accountant allows 
 her to escape to the capital\, but she soon finds that life as a 
 respectable housewife is not sufficient either. She wants what the rich 
 mothers at her children’s school have. She wants what their husbands 
 have. Her desire for wealth and freedom becomes an obsession. But can she 
 truly shake her past? And what of the menacing spectre of her brother\, a 
 reminder of the threads that tie her to the life she left behind?\n\nSet 
 against a hypnotic\, oppressive backdrop of political violence and natural 
 disaster\, A Splintering traces the class struggle of a woman stuck between 
 province and metropolis\, between motherhood and ambition. Disquieting and 
 utterly gripping\, it is an extraordinary achievement by Dur e Aziz Amna\, 
 an exploration of a complex and unforgettable character who will risk 
 everything to carve out a life of her own.\n\n\n\n
LOCATION:AUDITORIUM - ROOM A
ORGANIZER;CN="Jon Michaud":MAILTO:jon@millburnlibrary.org
CATEGORIES:ADULT PROGRAMMING EVENTS
CONTACT;CN="Jon Michaud":MAILTO:jon@millburnlibrary.org
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