![]() ![]() ![]() When Razia is accepted to Stuyvesant, a prestigious high school in Manhattan, the gulf between the person she is and the daughter her parents want her to be, widens. They embark on a series of small rebellions: listening to scandalous music, wearing mini skirts, and cutting school to explore the city. She finds solace in Taslima, a new girl in her close-knit Pakistani-American community. When a family rift drives the girls apart, Razia’s heart is broken. Razia Mirza grows up amid the wild grape vines and backyard sunflowers of Corona, Queens, with her best friend, Saima, by her side. Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion concerns itself less with plot than it does with life, character-driven tension steeped in gossip, family, faith and community pushing the narrative forward until the threads unravel and Razia must decide where to begin her own stitches.” ![]() In 1980s Queens, change in her neighborhood, among her community, between old customs and her increasingly “Americanized” classmates and friends, stretching her adolescent understanding over and over as she tries to figure out who she is and who she wants to be. “Razia is patchwork of so many unrealized wants and as many vocalized expectations. ![]()
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