by Seemi Aziz, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
This novel presents consequences of immigration on second generation children. The story revolves around twin teenaged brother and sister of Pakistani decent. Farhana is the sister and Faraz the brother. They are born in U.K. to parents who migrated and are not well educated. They run a small shop. Mom is a stay at home mother. They live amongst the extended family of grandmother and aunts and uncles. Both siblings are juggling the balance of tradition/religion along with their lived experiences of modernity/westernization feel disconnected with the 1st generation except for an aunt who grew up and was educated in England and seems to have found herself in the process. This aunt is deemed too religious by the rest of her family, as she wears the ‘hijab’ not traditional to Pakistan.
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