{"id":5280,"date":"2005-04-07T10:32:32","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T14:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=5280"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:55:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:55:46","slug":"sadikas-way-a-novel-of-pakistan-and-america-by-hina-haq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/sadikas-way-a-novel-of-pakistan-and-america-by-hina-haq\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadika&#8217;s Way: A Novel of Pakistan and America by Hina Haq [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/04\/Sadikas-way1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-30980\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/04\/Sadikas-way1.jpg\" alt=\"Sadika's way\" width=\"314\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>Not exactly one of the newest titles (it arrived later than sooner on my desk), but certainly noteworthy because of its subject matter. It opens with the Pakistani birth of Sadika \u2013 an unwanted daughter \u2013 and moves swiftly along through her coming of age, her lack of marriage prospects, and her eventual blossoming as an independent young woman. A sense of \u201cyou GO, girl\u201d keeps moving the story, and you can\u2019t help but root for naive Sadika as she finally claims her own voice and learns to navigate a discovered newly sense of self.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/asianweek-2005-04-07-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books, <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, April 7, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tidbit<\/strong>:\u00a0Hina Haq\u00a0was one of our many wonderful guests for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/apanews.si.edu\/2005\/10\/01\/saltaf-2005-south-asian-literary-and-theater-arts-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">SALTAF 2005<\/a> [South Asian Literary and Theater Arts Festival].<\/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-5281\" title=\"Sadika's Way\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/sadikas-way.jpg\" alt=\"Sadika's Way\" width=\"127\" height=\"202\" \/>Not exactly one of the newest titles (it arrived later than sooner on my desk), but certainly noteworthy because of its subject matter. It opens with the Pakistani birth of Sadika \u2013 an unwanted daughter \u2013 and moves swiftly along through her coming of age, her lack of marriage prospects, and her eventual blossoming as an independent young woman. A sense of \u201cyou GO, girl\u201d keeps moving the story, and you can\u2019t help but root for naive Sadika as she finally claims her own voice and learns to navigate a discovered newly sense of self.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/asianweek-2005-04-07-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books, <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, April 7, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,296,1021,6535,17,18],"tags":[3598,6608,58,10,3739,51,25,3740],"class_list":["post-5280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-pakistani","category-pakistani-american","category-repost","category-south-asian","category-south-asian-american","tag-asianweek","tag-bookdragon","tag-coming-of-age","tag-family","tag-hina-haq","tag-identity","tag-immigration","tag-sadikas-way"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sadika&#039;s Way: A Novel of Pakistan and America by Hina Haq [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\/sadikas-way-a-novel-of-pakistan-and-america-by-hina-haq\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sadika&#039;s Way: A Novel of Pakistan and America by Hina Haq [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Not exactly one of the newest titles (it arrived later than sooner on my desk), but certainly noteworthy because of its subject matter. 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