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- about A Lesson in Symbiotics, or How To Train a Heart to Beat Like a Friend’s Heart
Poetry
A Lesson in Symbiotics, or How To Train a Heart to Beat Like a Friend’s Heart
"This may be accompanied by / a sense of exhalation, of / relief, of surrender. You may / find yourself succumbing / to an impossible closeness."
- about Stolen Memories
Nonfiction
Stolen Memories
"Think of all those composite characters in the based-on-a-true-story movies you have watched on TV, people whose tireless efforts and selfless sacrifices to right injustices have been edited out for the sake of simplifying the truth in the name of entertainment. But memories have value. They are not things to discard, distort, or destroy without regard."
- about The Mysterious Tramp
Fiction
The Mysterious Tramp
"In a week, the whole village became acquainted with Ummed Ali. Kauser never felt him a burden. When the neighbors enquired of him, she simply said, 'It is perhaps God’s will that he should get his food and shelter here at our place.'"