Growing Up In Pakistan In The 1980s,

With Movement, Families Get Split. With The Politicization Of Religion, Spirituality Gets Diluted. With People Intermarrying And Falling In Love Outside Of Pre-existing Defined Groups, The Tribe Is Disappearing. I'm Not In Favor Of Going Back To Those Things, But You Can't Take Those Things Away Without Putting Something New In Its Place. So Finding A Way To Make Transience More Acceptable, Even Beautiful Is Key.

All Human Stories Are Migration Stories Because Everyone Is A Refugee From Their Own Childhood.

She Was Struggling Against A Current That Brought Her Inside Herself.

Novel Writing Is Solitary Work.

It's In Being Read That A Book Becomes A Book, And In Each Of A Million Different Readings A Book Become One Of A Million Different Books . . .