The Writing On My Forehead

《追風箏的孩子》作者卡勒德．胡賽尼感動推薦

　　美國穆斯林女孩Saira在14歲那一年發現了自家的秘密，像是家族流傳的故事中，為愛私奔男主角的真實身份、不准參加高中舞會的秘密、叛逆的堂哥堂姊其實是為了要抵抗傳同的束縛......

　　女孩長大後，拒絕走入婚姻選擇事業，和堂哥搭檔成為記者，遠赴戰地報導。她以生動文筆寫出家族故事，促成母親和外公的英國家庭和解。然而看似平靜的家庭生活再次風雲變色，母親病逝、父親再婚、姊姊在911後被憤怒的激進人士殺害......生命實在很難預測，一連串的事件接踵而至，其實，要作自己生命的主人並不容易，這難題要怎麼解呢？

　　"A moving meditation on the meaning of family, tradition, and the ties that bind. Lyrical and touching. A story of mother and daughters, and of a young Muslim woman at crossroads, shaped by the forces of her past, her religion, her roots, her culture, and her own determined will." — Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns

　　"(An) impressive debut. Haji achieves an effortless commingling of family and social history in this intricate story that connects a young woman and her family over continents and through generations." — Publishers Weekly

　　From childhood, willful, intelligent Saira Qader broke the boundaries between her family's traditions and her desire for independence. A free-spirited and rebellious Muslim-American of Indo-Pakistani descent, she rejected the constricting notions of family, duty, obligation, and fate, choosing instead to become a journalist, the world her home.

　　Five years later, tragedy strikes, throwing Saira's life into turmoil. Now the woman who chased the world to uncover the details of other lives must confront the truths of her own. In need of understanding, she looks to the stories of those who came before—her grandparents, a beloved aunt, her mother and father. As Saira discovers the hope, pain, joy, and passion that defined their lives, she begins to face what she never wanted to admit—that choice is not always our own, and that faith is not just an intellectual preferenc