![]() ![]() Having grown up with their father and their grandmother, Nisha and Amil know very little about their Muslim mother, aside from her paintings, which her father keeps hidden. Nisha decides to use the diary as a way to write to her mother, who died while giving birth to Nisha and her twin brother Amil. ![]() ![]() In presenting it to her, he tells her it is meant to “make a record of the things that will happen because the grown-ups will be too busy” (p. The diary is given to her by Kazi, the Muslim cook who works for Nisha’s Hindu family. ![]() The novel unfolds in the form of a diary kept by Nisha from Jto November 10, 1947. So observes twelve-year-old Nisha, the protagonist of Veera Hiranandani’s gorgeous historical novel that offers contemporary readers a window on the Partition of India and Pakistan, the largest human migration in history, and an event that American students, and perhaps teachers, are likely to know little to nothing about. “Wasn’t independence from the British supposed to free us? We’ve never been less free” (p. Published by Dial Books for Young Readers, 2018 ![]()
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