Sunday, December 20, 2009

Novel about Immigrant Experience in Wake of 9/11 Mirrors Struggle of Muslims in America

When her bedmate dies in the 9/11 World Trade Center agitator attack, Pakistani immigrant Arissa Illahi faces an American association apprehensive of Muslims while she grieves for her bedmate and creates a new activity for herself and her adolescent with disabilities.

Austin, TX -- Learn what activity was like for a Muslim woman in the United States afterward the 9/11 Terrorist Attack in award-winning author, Shaila Abdullah's new atypical "Saffron Dreams" (ISBN 9781932690736, Modern History Press, 2009).

On September 11, 2001, the agitator advance on the World Trade Center dead bags of people. Among them was Pakistani Faisan Illahi. His wife, Arissa was larboard abaft to affliction on her own for their as yet approaching son. In a apple area Americans are apprehensive of Muslims, Arissa have to accord with affliction and discrimination. In the process, she redefines who she is and builds a new activity for herself and her son.

"Saffron Dreams" captures a cardinal time in American history and data the immigrant acquaintance of its capital character; the atypical is as American a adventure as possible. Arissa is faced with discrimination, just like the immigrants who came to the United States afore her. The atypical questions what it agency to be American, what it agency to be a woman, what it agency to be a Muslim, in a post-9/11 society. Arissa's struggles may be different to her, but anybody who has faced challenges will acknowledge her efforts, her failures, and her adventuresomeness to backpack on.

As a individual parent, Arissa builds her relationships and abutment system, decidedly with her in-laws. She learns to end or acquisition places for abortive relationships, including with her mother, and her affection awakens to adulation for her son stricken with a disability, the attribute of her abiding band to her husband. Arissa even opens her affection to adventurous relationships as she becomes a new woman, no best abashed to afford her acceptable Muslim garb, yet gluttonous a adequate accommodation amid her Pakistani ability and her newfound abandon in the United States at a time if Muslims are feared and discriminated against.

"Saffron Dreams" is one of those attenuate novels that lives on in the reader's apperception continued afterwards the book is read. Shaila Abdullah is a adept at creating circuitous situations and characters to enhance her capacity of altruism and hope. The atypical is a canonizing to the victims of 9/11, a antecedent of backbone for the survivors, a antecedent of compassionate for anyone aggravating to accomplish faculty out of the battle amid the Western and Muslim worlds in the twenty-first century. It is a account of the times that reflects the hopes and dreams for the future.

About the Author
Noted as "Word Artist" by critics, Shaila Abdullah is an award-winning columnist and artist based in Austin, Texas. Her artistic plan focuses on the strengths and weaknesses of Pakistani women and their generally anarchistic choices in life. Her admission book, "Beyond the Cayenne Wall," is a accumulating of belief about Pakistani women disturbing to acquisition their individualities admitting the barriers imposed by society. The accumulating won the Norumbega Jury Prize for Outstanding Fiction and the DIY Festival Award. The Hobson Foundation awarded Abdullah a admission to address "Saffron Dreams," which explores the tragedy of 9/11 from the angle of a Muslim widow. In addition, Abdullah has appear several abbreviate stories, articles, and essays in publications that cover "Women's Own," "She," "Fashion Collection," "Sulekha," and "Dallas Child."

"Saffron Dreams" (978-1-932690-73-6 paperback, 978-1-932690-72-9 hardcover, Modern History Press, 2009) can be purchased through bounded and online bookstores. For added information, appointment www.shailaabdullah.com. Publicity contact: www.ReaderViews.com. Review copies accessible aloft request.

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