31 Hours
β Scribed by Masha Hamilton
- Publisher
- Unbridled Books
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 124 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
A woman in New York awakens knowing, as deeply as a motherβs blood can know, that her grown son is in danger. She has not heard from him in weeks. His name is Jonas. His girlfriend, Vic, doesnβt know what she has done wrong, but Jonas wonβt answer his cell phone. We soon learn that Jonas is isolated in a safe-house apartment in New York City, pondering his conversion to Islam and his experiences training in Pakistan, preparing for the violent action he has been instructed to take in 31 hours. Jonasβs absence from the lives of those who love him causes a cascade of events, and as the novel moves through the streets and subways of New York we come to know intimately the lives of its characters. We also learn to feel deeply the connections and disconnections that occur between young people and their parents not only in this country but in the Middle East as well.
Carried by Hamiltonβs highly-lauded prose, this story about the helplessness of those wh...
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