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Liepman Literary Agency
Marc Koralnik |
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THAT THING WE CALL A HEART
Shabnam Qureshi is a sparky, imaginative Pakistani- American teen growing up in suburban New Jersey. In
an AP history class at her tony private school, Shabnam, in order to make herself more interesting, invents a
tragic family story set during the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan. While her lie initially has the desired
effect, it sets of a painful series of events. To top it off, her best friend Maggie leaves for a backpacking trip
across Europe, leaving Shabnam to face the prospect of spending the summer before college moping around the house with her well-meaning but overbearing mother and emotionally distant, awkward father. But things look up when she meets the charismatic Marianne, who offers her a job selling pies at Andromeda's Pie Shack. Not only does Shabnam meet free-spirited, mysterious Jamie at the pie shack, over the course of the summer she begins to bond with her father, who teaches her about Urdu poetry and a painful truth about Partition. Set against a backdrop of Radiohead music and the evocative metaphors of Urdu poetry, THAT THING WE CALL A HEART is an honest, moving story of a young woman's explorations of first love, sexuality, desire, self-worth, her relationship with her parents, the importance of friendship, and what it means to be true. (1st of a two-book deal)
Sheba Karim is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. She is currently working on an adult historical novel entitled THE SERPENT QUEEN about the historical figure Razia, the daughter of a Sultan in 13th century India, who herself became a Sultan, took her African slave as a consort, and rode into battle on an elephant.
an AP history class at her tony private school, Shabnam, in order to make herself more interesting, invents a
tragic family story set during the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan. While her lie initially has the desired
effect, it sets of a painful series of events. To top it off, her best friend Maggie leaves for a backpacking trip
across Europe, leaving Shabnam to face the prospect of spending the summer before college moping around the house with her well-meaning but overbearing mother and emotionally distant, awkward father. But things look up when she meets the charismatic Marianne, who offers her a job selling pies at Andromeda's Pie Shack. Not only does Shabnam meet free-spirited, mysterious Jamie at the pie shack, over the course of the summer she begins to bond with her father, who teaches her about Urdu poetry and a painful truth about Partition. Set against a backdrop of Radiohead music and the evocative metaphors of Urdu poetry, THAT THING WE CALL A HEART is an honest, moving story of a young woman's explorations of first love, sexuality, desire, self-worth, her relationship with her parents, the importance of friendship, and what it means to be true. (1st of a two-book deal)
Sheba Karim is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. She is currently working on an adult historical novel entitled THE SERPENT QUEEN about the historical figure Razia, the daughter of a Sultan in 13th century India, who herself became a Sultan, took her African slave as a consort, and rode into battle on an elephant.
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