![]() Your heart will be filled after reading this book. ![]() Some based on real people in her childhood, Rehman’s characters are reflections of the author’s deep love for a place and community-and that love is made evident from the first page. As a writer, Rehman has a keen understanding of human nature, and she creates a cast of diverse, Queens personalities that reflect her sensibility of people as flawed, but ultimately good. ![]() ![]() Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion features many of the same characters as Corona-and it’s also filled with the same astonishing lyricism. The lush language and gorgeous depictions of childhood in Corona made me an instant fan. I first came to know Rehman’s work through Corona(Sibling Rivalry, 2013), a book selected by the NY Public Library as one of its favorite novels about NYC. Unlike the cinephile, the literary booklover is rarely treated to the joy of a sequel. ![]() As Razia discovers her queer sexuality, she struggles to know where she fits within her immigrant Pakistani-American community-and what lengths she’ll go to in order to become the person she’s destined to be. Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion, Bushra Rehman’s newest novel out now from Flatiron Books, follows Razia Mirza-a young Muslim woman growing up in Corona, Queens in the 1980’s. ![]()
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