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Nafisa Haji

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Nafisa Haji is an American of Indo-Pakistani descent. She was born and mostly raised in Los Angeles—-mostly, because there were years also spent in Chicago, Karachi, Manila, and London. Her family migrated from Bombay to Karachi in 1947 during Partition, when the Indian Subcontinent was divided into two states. In the late 1960s, Nafisa's parents came to the United States, shortly before she was born, in order for her father to study engineering at Stanford. When she was six years old, they stuck with their original plan of "going back home" and moved to Karachi. In less than a year, they knew that they had become more American than they realized and came back to Los Angeles.

Nafisa studied American history at the University of California at ...more

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Average rating: 3.93 · 4,411 ratings · 592 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Writing on My Forehead 3.87 avg rating — 2,671 ratings — published 2009 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sweetness of Tears 4.02 avg rating — 1,741 ratings — published 2011 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[ [ [ The Sweetness of Tears[ THE SWEETNESS OF TEARS ] By Haji, Nafisa ( Author )May-17-2011 Paperback 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	(Sweetness of Tears, The) [By: Haji, Nafisa] [May, 2011] by Nafisa Haji (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)

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“that there are many things that we cant understand. the past. the bad things that happened... and we become afraid. of what might happen in the future. its okay to be afraid. but we have to keep hoping and believeing... to keep hoping and trying our best to be good and do good. even when we're afraid”
― Nafisa Haji, The Writing on My Forehead

tags: afraid, believing, future, hope, past, scared

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“There is an old Arab Bedouin saying: I, against my brothers. I and my brothers against my cousins. I and my brothers and my cousins against the world. That is jungle law. It is the way of the world when the world is thrown into chaos. It is our job to avert that chaos, to fight against it, to resist the urge to become savage. Because the problem with such law is that if you follow it, you are always fighting against someone.”
― Nafisa Haji, The Sweetness of Tears

tags: humanity, inspirational, war

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“You won't understand this now, Saira. Later, perhaps. When you are older. When you learn that life is not only about the choices you make. That some of them will be made for you.”
― Nafisa Haji, The Writing on My Forehead

tags: choice, destiny, fate, life

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message 4: by Nafisa

Sep 26, 2011 02:49PM

Kishwar wrote: "Nafisa, I love that you and Laila are now friends on goodreads :))"

Me, too! I remember well how she used to dive into all my classroom picture books at the ripe old age of 4 in Newton....and how the sight of her engrossed in books in the garden drew my neighbor out, camera in hand, absolutely amazed that such a little one could so love books :-D

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message 3: by Kishwar Jaffer

Sep 26, 2011 01:29PM

Nafisa, I love that you and Laila are now friends on goodreads :))

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message 2: by Nafisa

Jun 30, 2011 12:10AM

Nicole wrote: "You have some great talent in writing books. Hope to read some more soon! :)"

Thanks so much, Nicole, for the lovely review and for the prodding. I'll keep you posted :)

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message 1: by Nicole

Jun 29, 2011 09:08PM

You have some great talent in writing books. Hope to read some more soon! :)

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