American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11080141-american-dervish
Please hear some words from someone you feel more open to listening to:
"Akhtar’s parents were the first in their families to emigrate, and they spent long vacations visiting relatives in Pakistan, where Akhtar, the firstborn son of a firstborn son, was lovingly fussed over. While the men went off to hunt, he stayed inside drinking tea with the women, absorbing their Punjabi chat and gossip. 'I was really into the domestic interior, family dramas,' he said. One aunt loved Shakespeare; another enthralled him with stories of the Prophet Muhammad. Embedding in this protected female space helped him make better sense of his mother. 'Her pain was, in large part, the pain of being a woman in a culture that made it very hard to be a woman,' he said. 'I saw all of her sisters go through this dilemma. Very smart, charismatic, resourceful women who were subordinated, and separated.'"
~ A. Schwartz
"An American Writer for an Age of Division" | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/21/an-american-writer-for-an-age-of-division
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