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Lara Zuberi

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in The United States

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Fiction

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Khaled Hosseini, Daphne du Maurier, Eric Segal,Kamila Shamsie

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Lara Zuberi is of Pakistani origin. She writes literary fiction which has a multicultural flavor with a strong emphasis on the value of relationships. Her first novel, The Lost Pearl, was published in 2012. Her second novel, Torn Pages, was published on January 1st, 2018. She is currently working on the final draft of her collection of Urdu poetry and has begun writing her third novel, The Ruined Canvas.
She is an Associate Professor in the department of Hematology and Oncology at the University of Florida, and lives her life as mother, daughter, physician, and author, grateful to her family for making it possible for all to coexist.

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Average rating: 4.09 · 234 ratings · 78 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Lost Pearl 4.07 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 2012 — 3 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
	Torn Pages 4.11 avg rating — 71 ratings — 3 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
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Nightingale on The Highest Branch

Although I knew she was ninety-two, and I was aware that she had been afflicted with Covid, I was hoping that the strength of her lungs would prevail—but alas, her time had come. The day Lata Mangeshkar passed, I mourned for her like I would for a person I knew well, someone whose absence felt tangible and painful. It has taken me a while to write this, as I am still absorbing the impact of this m Read more of this blog post »

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It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)

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Lara’s Quotes

“How do you end a story that’s not yours? Add another sentence where there is a pause? Infiltrate the story with a comma when really there should have been a period? Punctuate with an exclamation point where a period would have sufficed? What if you kill something breathing and breathe life into something the author wanted to eliminate? How do you get inside the mind of a person who isn’t there? Fill the shoes of someone who will never again fill his own?”
― Shaila Abdullah

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“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant

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“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
― Confucious

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