Zeena Nackerdien

• Jan-2015
• / General Fiction
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The emotionally-wounded survivors of the 9/11 attacks include a fifty-year old, South African Muslim scientist, Leila, who lost her fiancée, Khalid, on that fateful day. She is the narrator of a story threading together the lives of four South Afric...

• Jan-2018
• / General Fiction
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A young woman grows up on the wrong side of the tracks in Paarl, South Africa. Here Muslim and Christian neighbors live in peace, bonded by the common yokes of poverty and a legacy of apartheid. Like poor women everywhere, the options for Sarah are s...

• Mar-2018
• / General Fiction
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American suburbs are populated with mostly white and wealthy residents, white picket fences, and children preparing themselves for corporate positions at Ivy-league schools. Connecticut certainly fits this profile, as it is often cited as a state wit...

• Aug-2018
• / General Fiction
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Neither fish nor fowl, every immigrant threads the needle between being one of us versus one of them. The plot is both a fantasy and an exercise in exploring ways in which recent African immigrants and African-Americans recognize and embrace each oth...