Everybody has pain. Everybody is trying to manage their pain. It’s a state that we all understand.

In her brilliant new novel, Aamina Ahmad's characters inhabit their pain and love with ordinary yet extraordinary grief

Pain and love are riddled with grief for the characters in Aamina Ahmad’s new book, a brilliant work of noir fiction, The Return of Faraz Ali. Their grief is ordinary, and yet, all grief is extraordinary to some degree, isn’t it?

Aamina holds her characters psyches’ in her two hands with such care—they are vivid, feeling, and complex. As we all are. Abo…