A scholar of race, gender, and war in multiethnic American literature, Samina Najmi discovered the rewards of more personal kinds of writing in 2011. Her essay “Abdul” won Map Literary’s 2012 nonfiction prize. Samina grew up in Karachi and London and now calls California’s San Joaquin Valley home.
Photos (left to right): Chris Davies, Eliza Bacani, Laura Gilmore
These brief pieces form a meditation on our threshold for violences, great and small. They probe the ironic relationship…
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