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Naseem Rakha
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November 19, 1959
in Chicago, The United States
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The Crying Tree
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My Year with Harry Potter (Select)
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First Appeared in Shelf Awareness, 7/21/2011
THE BIRTH OF A BOOK (Literature & Fiction)
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The Crying Tree's debut days
Dancing in Antwerp (Health, Mind & Body)
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Essay about a YouTube film of people dancing to The Sound of Music in a railway station in Antwerp
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“It had been so beautiful. Life had been so simple and so terribly beautiful.”
― Naseem Rakha, The Crying Tree
― Naseem Rakha, The Crying Tree
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Thanks for accepting me the other day. I just finished your book, its superb! I look forward to more :)













































