THOSE CHILDREN

When ten-year-old Ferzana Mahmud and her three older siblings lose their mother to cancer everything changes. Their heartbroken father moves them from their familiar Chicago suburb to a city thousands of miles away in his native Pakistan. To help them adjust to life in Karachi and to the eccentricities of their extended clan Ferzana Fatima Raza ...

Shahbano Bilgrami is a published poet children's book author and freelance editor whose debut novel Without Dreams was long listed for the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize in 2007. She lives in Upstate New York with her husband and three daughters.