In a short story collection that spans countries, emotions, and generations, Masooda Rahman Khan uses tight, personal narratives to explore universal humanitarian issues. Stories of young girls and animals, and the constant mistreatment of both, force the reader to confront uncomfortable truths about the state of the world. Khan pulls from a childhood spent traveling the globe with her father to inject a sense of vivid realism to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. These deeply felt short stories will stay with you long after you put the book down.
Masooda Rahman Khan was born in a little town in Salar, Murshidabad, India. She was raised in India, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. She attended a convent school in New Delhi but completed high school and college in Karachi. New Orleans is the place where she lived the longest. She is still residing in Metairie, Louisiana, in the suburbs of New Orleans. Masooda is a single mother. She has worked as a real estate agent, a translator in Philadelphia, an X-ray technician in a hospital, and a teacher. She now owns her own business. She is a proud grandma of Imran (11), Diya (9) and Azad (6).