The River, the Town Ali Farah
The River, the Town Ali Farah A poignant and powerful first novel following the breakup of a Pakistani family in the face of climate disaster, and their indefatigable search for stability, love, and…
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The River, the Town Ali Farah
A poignant and powerful first novel following the breakup of a Pakistani family in the face of climate disaster, and their indefatigable search for stability, love, and belonging.In the rural town in Pakistan where Baadal grows up, children are named like talismans to sustain life and ward off unhappiness. But in the final year of his schooling, abundance seems impossibly far away. At seventeen, Baadal has come to understand why his parents named him "Cloud," with hopes that their Big River will one day flow wide and blue again, and their thirst will be quenched after years of drought.
As his parents' marriage--full of rage, despair, and often violence--reaches a breaking point, the only comfort Baadal can afford is a budding kinship with Meena, a divorced older woman he meets on the banks of the drying river.Meena has only just escaped her abusive husband, but her
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