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Tahmima Anam
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in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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December 2020
On changing lanes and saving my best jokes
Dear Readers,
Some of you know me from my previous novels – A Golden Age, The Good Muslim, and The Bones of Grace. The novels followed the journeys of three generations of Bangladeshi women from the Haque family. My immense gratitude to all those of you who read those books with care and love.
For the last ten years, I’ve been working at a tech startup founded by my husband. At some point in those Read more of this blog post »
Some of you know me from my previous novels – A Golden Age, The Good Muslim, and The Bones of Grace. The novels followed the journeys of three generations of Bangladeshi women from the Haque family. My immense gratitude to all those of you who read those books with care and love.
For the last ten years, I’ve been working at a tech startup founded by my husband. At some point in those Read more of this blog post »
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The Startup Wife
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2021
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20 editions
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A Golden Age (Bangla Desh, #1)
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2007
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67 editions
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The Good Muslim (Bangla Desh, #2)
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2011
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38 editions
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The Bones of Grace (Bangla Desh, #3)
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2016
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28 editions
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Six Shorts 2014: The finalists for The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award
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2014
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BBC National Short Story Award 2016
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Garments
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Anwar Gets Everything
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2013
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The Face: Third World Blues
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Aahe Kattar Tari
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“Before placing her in her mother's arms, she whispered, as she had at all the other births, hello, little amphibian. Someone had to acknowledge the strangeness of this soul, and the distance it had traversed, millions and millions of years, in order to be here.”
― The Good Muslim
― The Good Muslim
“Rehana regarded the saris and tried to recall the feeling they had given her, of being at once enveloped and set free, the tight revolutions of material around her hips and legs limiting movement, the empty space between blouse and petticoat permitting unexpected sensations -- the thrill of a breeze that has strayed low, through an open window, the knowledge of heat in strange places, the back, the exposed belly. It was the bringing together of night and day....”
― A Golden Age
― A Golden Age
“It was like that with her mother – memory upon memory stacked together like the feathers in a wild bird, there to keep her warm, or when she needed to, fly. She was the wings of her, the very wings.”
― The Good Muslim
― The Good Muslim
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