{"id":4061,"date":"2004-02-06T16:59:15","date_gmt":"2004-02-06T20:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=4061"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:48:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:48:46","slug":"madras-on-rainy-days-by-samina-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/madras-on-rainy-days-by-samina-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"Madras on Rainy Days by Samina Ali [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2004\/02\/Madras-on-Rainy-Days.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-31650\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2004\/02\/Madras-on-Rainy-Days.jpg\" alt=\"Madras on Rainy Days\" width=\"315\" height=\"475\" \/><\/a>A lyrical debut novel about a young Muslim Indian woman, who returns to her ancestral home to fulfill her destiny of marrying her betrothed. But from the very beginning, the union is beset with too many deep secrets that must be exorcised.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/2004-02-06-new-and-notable1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, February 6, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tidbit<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redroom.com\/author\/samina-ali\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Samina Ali <\/a>was one of our many lauded guests at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/apanews.si.edu\/2004\/11\/20\/saltaf-2004-south-asian-literary-and-theater-arts-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">SALTAF 2004<\/a> [South Asian Literary and Theater Arts Fesival], the first of many SALTAFs held at the Smithsonian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4063\" title=\"Madras on Rainy Days\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/madras-on-rainy-days1.jpg\" alt=\"Madras on Rainy Days\" width=\"128\" height=\"193\" \/>A lyrical debut novel about a young Muslim Indian woman, who returns to her ancestral home to fulfill her destiny of marrying her betrothed. But from the very beginning, the union is beset with too many deep secrets that must be exorcised.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/2004-02-06-new-and-notable1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, February 6, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,52,53,6535,17,18],"tags":[3598,6608,59,10,51,25,13,4500,55,4501],"class_list":["post-4061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-indian","category-indian-american","category-repost","category-south-asian","category-south-asian-american","tag-asianweek","tag-bookdragon","tag-cultural-exploration","tag-family","tag-identity","tag-immigration","tag-love","tag-madras-on-rainy-days","tag-religious-differences","tag-samina-ali"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Madras on Rainy Days by Samina Ali [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/madras-on-rainy-days-by-samina-ali\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Madras on Rainy Days by Samina Ali [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A lyrical debut novel about a young Muslim Indian woman, who returns to her ancestral home to fulfill her destiny of marrying her betrothed. 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