The Reading List

by Sara Nisha Adams

He wished more than anything that—rather than suffering creaking joints and ailing eyesight—he’d started losing his hearing first. In his family, where each of his daughters liked to talk a thousand decibels louder than the average human, that would have been particularly useful.

no matter how terribly you have behaved in the past—you should do everything you can to be good.

I think we have all been a bit of Amir in our lives—self-centered, focused only on ourselves—and we have all been a bit of Hassan too, forgotten by the people we love the most.

“She knows how to do it—treats him mean, keeps him keen . . .”

sometimes when you really like a book, you need to read it again! To relive what you loved and find out what you missed before.

Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things Zadie Smith, White Teeth Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah Katherine Heiny, Standard Deviation Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance Hiromi Kawakami, Strange Weather in Tokyo Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Attia Hosain, Sunlight on a Broken Column Ali Smith, There But For The