Bapsi Sidhwa has been widely celebrated as the finest novelist produced by her country—the New York Times called her "Pakistan's finest English-language novelist." She is the author of several novels, including Cracking India, The Crow Eaters, An American Brat, The Pakistani Bride, and Water, which received the Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe/Harvard, the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writer's Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan's highest honor in the arts, and the Sir Sayed Day Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Literature. She lives in Houston.
As the young daughter of an affluent Parsee family in Lahore, Lenny is keenly observant of the city’s astonishing diversity—Muslims and Hindus, Christians and Sikhs, coexisting together. But as Lahore descends into sectarian violence, Lenny’s innocence is lost, and with it the fragile unity of a nation.
