A man plants asparagus because he believes in three years from now.
On a quiet street in 2032 Massachusetts, Kaz Malik learns the neighbors' names. He shovels their walks in winter. He raises his children as if the ground they stand on belongs to them. He does everything right.
It isn't enough.
His daughter is the only one left. She has never told anyone what happened.
This is a novel you will finish and then sit quietly for a while. You might call someone you love. You might drive past your own house and look at the windows. You might stand in your kitchen and listen to the sound of the people in the next room and think: I did not know this was something that could be taken.
For readers of Never Let Me Go, Home Fire, The Kite Runner, and A Little Life. A debut literary novel about a British-Pakistani family, fatherhood, silence, and what happens to ordinary people when a country decides to stop being ordinary.
95,000 words. A reading group guide is available at briarlanepress.com. The author is available for book club video calls.
