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Tahmima Anam

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Tahmima Anam is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, and anthropologist. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Granta Best Young British Novelist, and winner of a Commonwealth Writers Prize. Her work has been published in Granta, The New York Times, and The Guardian. She was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh and lives in London, where she is on the board of ROLI, a music technology startup founded by her husband.

The Startup Wife (07/13/2021) is her latest novel.

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 »
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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.”
Tahmima Anam, 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....”
Tahmima Anam, 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.”
Tahmima Anam, The Good Muslim

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