Isolated Incident - Pirbhai, Mariam
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When a rock, a threatening letter, and a burning Quran are thrown into a mosque, religious leaders and the police shrug it off as an isolated incident, but not everyone is convinced. Kashif Siddiqui joins a group of volunteers on security watch during Eid night, which becomes a test of friendship, family, and faith for the people in Kashif's orbit. For Kashif, it may mean the difference between life and death.

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Produktbeschreibung
When a rock, a threatening letter, and a burning Quran are thrown into a mosque, religious leaders and the police shrug it off as an isolated incident, but not everyone is convinced. Kashif Siddiqui joins a group of volunteers on security watch during Eid night, which becomes a test of friendship, family, and faith for the people in Kashif's orbit. For Kashif, it may mean the difference between life and death.
Autorenporträt
Mariam Pirbhai is the author of the short story collection Outside People and Other Stories, winner of the 2018 IPPY Gold Medal for Multicultural Fiction and the 2019 American BookFest Award for the Short Story. It also ranked among CBC's top ten "must read" books of 2017. Isolated Incident is her first novel. The daughter of Pakistani immigrants, Pirbhai is Professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University, where she teaches and specializes in postcolonial studies and creative writing.