From Nafisa Haji, author of the critically acclaimed novel,
The Writing on My Forehead,
comes
The Sweetness of Tears
, an emotional, deeply layered story that explores the far reaching effects of cultural prejudice, forbidden love, and hidden histories on a young woman and her family. A paperback original from a superb writer whose first novel was enthusiastically praised by Khaled Hosseini, bestselling author of The
Kite Runner
and
A Thousand Splendid Suns
, Haji, an American of Indo-Pakistani descent, writes with grace, heart, and wisdom about the collisions of culture and religion, tradition and modernity played out through individual lives.