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Corona

Bushra Rehman

Finalist:Lambda Literary Award -Bisexual Fiction (2014)
Razia Mirza is a Pakistani woman from Corona who grew up in a tight Muslim community surrounding the first Sunni masjid built in New York City. When a rebellious streak leads to her ex-communication, she decides to hit the road. Corona moves between Razia's childhood in Queens and the comedic misadventures she encounters on her journey, from a Puritan Colony in Massachusetts to New York City's Bhangra music scene. With each story, we learn more about the past she's escaping, a past which leads her to constantly travel in a spiral, always coming closer to but never quite arriving home.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC
  • Publish Date: Aug 1st, 2013
  • Pages: 154
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.00in - 0.36in - 0.38lb
  • EAN: 9781937420390
  • Categories: Literary

About the Author

Rehman, Bushra: - Bushra Rehman, originally from Corona, Queens, is co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism (Seal Press, 2002). Rebecca Walker has called Colonize This! "a must for young women of color searching for themselves within contemporary feminist/womanist discourse, and anyone else who wants to get down with the fierceness of fly, intellectual divas of color." Colonize This! was included in Ms. Magazine's "100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time." Her writing has also been featured on BBC Radio 4, WNYC, and KPFA and in The New York Times, India Currents, Crab Orchard Review, Sepia Mutiny, Color Lines, The Feminist Wire and Mizna: Prose, Poetry and Art Exploring Arab America.