{"id":50202,"date":"2023-01-16T12:11:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T17:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=50202"},"modified":"2023-01-03T13:31:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T18:31:32","slug":"best-of-friends-by-kamila-shamsie-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/best-of-friends-by-kamila-shamsie-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-50135\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/11\/Best-of-Friends-Kamila-Shamsie-BookDragon-530x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/11\/Best-of-Friends-Kamila-Shamsie-BookDragon-530x800.jpg 530w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/11\/Best-of-Friends-Kamila-Shamsie-BookDragon.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nTania Rodrigues and Kamila Shamsie prove themselves the best of audiobook companions with their fifth memorable pairing. Rodrigues, \u201cwith roots in India, Portugal and Britain,\u201d according to her website bio, is an ideally cosmopolitan choice to follow two teens who come of age in 1988 Karachi and become powerful women in 2019 London.<\/p>\n<p>What Zahra and Maryam have had, since forever, is best friend-ship \u2013 \u201cwhat they had with the other[s] \u2026 was merely \u2018propinquity\u2019 \u2013 a relationship based on physical proximity.\u201d Zahra is the studious one, determined to get to Oxbridge or the Ivy League. Maryam is the heiress to the family\u2019s leather business, mentored by her doting grandfather. Rodrigues initially emphasizes the teens\u2019 youth, deftly granting Zahra greater gravitas.<\/p>\n<p>As Pakistan undergoes the Zia\/Bhutto succession, Zahra and Maryam become mired in \u201c<em>girlfear<\/em>\u201d: an experience Maryam will remember as the \u201cabsolute worst scariest thing that happened in [her] childhood.\u201d With a page turn, Zahra is now the director of Britain\u2019s oldest civil liberties organization; Maryam is a venture capitalist able to influence the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Rodrigues effortlessly adapts as decades pass and bonds become unbearably taut. Shamsie interrogates to breaking point; Rodrigues supports and elevates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Best-of-Friends-\/pid=9771095\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Media,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, December 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers:<\/strong> Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW Tania Rodrigues and Kamila Shamsie prove themselves the best of audiobook companions with their fifth memorable pairing. 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