An American Meo - by Anisa Rahim (Paperback)

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Book Synopsis

With Rahim for this journey, we ultimately are able to see how she and her loved ones come to acknowledge profound truths about the past and present, as well as the incalculable value, she tells us of this work, her "writing and reading and remembering and reconstructing, where I reside."

Review Quotes

American Meo is a transfixing meditation on what it means to be of two places. Born in America but deeply rooted in the culture, history, lore and generational trauma of the Meo people, Muslims from the Mewat region of India, Anisa Rahim takes us on a riveting journey through culture, history, family and her own coming of age.

Elizabeth Gaffney, author of Metropolis and When the World Was Young

Anisa Rahim's An American Meo: A Tale of Remembering and Forgetting, a marvel of archival exploration, is also a vivid, engrossing combination of nonfiction, fiction and myth, uncovering hidden stories of her family's past but also the history of a people, a region, a language, a world. With Rahim for this journey, we ultimately are able to see how she and her loved ones come to acknowledge profound truths about the past and present, as well as the incalculable value, she tells us of this work, her "writing and reading and remembering and reconstructing, where I reside."

John Keene, Author of Punks: New & Selected Poems and Counternarratives: Stories & Novellas