Premium Saffron Threads - 100% Pure Kashmiri Saffron for Cooking, Tea & Baking - Gourmet Spice for Paella, Risotto & Desserts - Ideal for Home Chefs & Food Enthusiasts
Premium Saffron Threads - 100% Pure Kashmiri Saffron for Cooking, Tea & Baking - Gourmet Spice for Paella, Risotto & Desserts - Ideal for Home Chefs & Food Enthusiasts

Premium Saffron Threads - 100% Pure Kashmiri Saffron for Cooking, Tea & Baking - Gourmet Spice for Paella, Risotto & Desserts - Ideal for Home Chefs & Food Enthusiasts

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Saffron Dreams is a tale of love, tragedy, and redemption from the award-winning author of Beyond the Cayenne Wall...Named as one of the 50 Greatest Works of Immigration Literature by Open Education Database. Recipient of multiple awards including Patras Bukhari Award for English Language, Golden Quill Award, and Written Art Award. Cited in a study by Washington and Lee University researchers who concluded that reading fiction like Saffron Dreams can make someone less racist.You don't know you're a misfit until you are marked as an outcast.From the darkest hour of American history emerges amesmerizing tale of tender love, a life interrupted, and faithrecovered. Arissa Illahi, a Muslim artist and writer, discovers in asingle moment that no matter how carefully you map your life,it is life itself that chooses your destiny. After her husband's deathin the collapse of the World Trade Center, the discovery of hismanuscript marks Arissa's reconnection to life. Her unborn sonand the unfinished novel fuse in her mind into one life-definingproject that becomes, at once, the struggle for her emotionalsurvival and the redemption of her race. Saffron Dreams is anovel about our ever evolving identities and the events and placesthat shape them. It reminds us that in the midst of tragedy, ourdreams can become a lasting legacy.About the AuthorNoted as "Word Artist" by critics, Shaila Abdullah is an award-winning author and designer based in Austin, Texas. Her 2005 debut book, Beyond the Cayenne Wall is a collection of short stories about Pakistani women struggling to find their individualities despite the barriers imposed by society. Her award-winning novel Saffron Dreams explores the tragedy of 9/11 from the perspective of a Muslim widow. She has also written three children's books-- My Friend Suhana, Rani in Search of a Rainbow, and A Manual for Marco. For more information, please visit ShailaAbdullah.com.Saffron Dreams is Book #5 of the Reflections of America Series from Modern History Press ModernHistoryPress.com

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Saffron Dreams had been on my to-read list , and somehow, coincidentally I managed to get to it on September 11. It is the story of Arissa Ilahi, a Pakistani girl who deals with the shocking loss of her husband on the morning of 9/11. Arissa's character, (although unconventionally modern for a Muslim girl raised in Pakistan) is so real, I felt as though she was a close friend suffering through pain of great intensity. Volumes of books have been written about losing the love of one's life, but this is so articulately written, it feels much more like a memoir than fiction. Some readers have questioned this style of writing, oscillating between the present and flashback, but I actually found it uniquely absorbing, and it worked very well for me. The way she allows her thoughts to drift into different parts of her past, not only brings reality to her grief, but also brings an occasional smile to the reader's lips despite the tragedy engraved in the story, as the blissful moments are recounted. The marriage was heavenly, but it wasn't perfect, inundated with arguments between husband and wife, which made it all the more believable.Being a Pakistani Muslim in America myself, the 9/11 tragedy and its aftermath has had a profound effect on me, and I really admire Shaila's portrayal of those sentiments that terror has no religion. The challenges she faces raising her special needs child without his father is heartbreaking and well depicted. The selflessness of her mother-in-law is truly inspiring.Shaila has used language that has the soft and abstract quality of poetry, while preserving the clarity of prose.It is the kind of book that is not only hard to put down, but one that stays with you after you have done so. After reading Saffron Dreams, I will be more grateful to have the blessings which one tends to take for granted:the companionship of my husband, and the health and well-being of my two-year old son.
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