It's more of a novella than a novel. It leaves space for your thoughts to echo.
It seems that as everyone was coming together everyone was also moving apart.
It is the first visit in many years for your son, finally a citizen of his new country and free to travel, and you try to suppress your undercurrent of resentment at his decision to absent himself fro...
Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimize the importance of the individual and maximize the importance of the group.
In times of violence, there is always that first acquaintance or intimate of ours, who, when they are touched, makes what had seemed like a bad dream suddenly, evisceratingly real.
In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude. E-reading opens the door to distraction. It invites connectivity and clicking and pu...
I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.
I met her eyes, and for the first time I perceived that there was something broken behind them, like a tiny crackin a diamond that becomes visible only when viewed through a magnifying lens; normally...
I like its eyes: two black dots, nonreflective light-trappers. Utterly determined eyes, doubt-free, unselfconscious. Frightening eyes if they happen to be looking at you and you’re small enough to be...
I can understand it, she said. Imagine if you lived here. And millions of people from all over the world suddenly arrived. Millions arrived in our country, Saeed replied. When there were wars nearby....
He was drawn to people from their country, both in the labor camp and online. It seemed to Nadia that the farther they moved from the city of their birth, through space and through time, the more he s...
Darashikoh was inside, for all the world a tastefully dressed patron of the shop, but he carried death in his undershorts and hunger in his heart.
But even now the city's freewheeling virtual world stood in stark contrast to the day-to-day lives of most people, to those of young men, and especially of young women, and above all of children who w...
A little paranoia crawls into my lap, purring loudly.
A country should be judged by how it treats its minorities. To the extent it protect them, it stands for the ennobling values of empathy and compassion, for justice rooted, not in might, but in human...
Like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony...
But I would suggest that it is instead our solitude that most disturb us, the fact that we are all but alone despite being in the heart of a city.
When it would be squarely in the path of heavy machine-gun and rocket fire as fighters advanced into this part of town: a view like staring down the barrel of a rifle. Location, location, location, th...
What is natural in one place can seem unnatural in another, and some concepts travel rather poorly, if at all.
The calm that is called the calm before the storm, but is in reality the foundation of a human life, waiting there for us between the steps of our march to our mortality, when we are compelled to paus...
