For girls, becoming women was inevitability; for boys, becoming men was ambition.
After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally
studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her
beautiful, headstrong sister back in London — or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in
pursuit of his own dream: to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew.
This week's book is Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie and we'll be meeting at Ye Olde Cocke on Wilmslow Road in Didsbury — contact us for details.
Please note change of book. You may wish to also read Sophocles' Antigone on which Home Fire is based.