6/29/2023 0 Comments The night diary pages![]() ![]() Nisha observes that her “childhood would always have a line drawn through it, the before and the after.” Forced to leave their comfortable life-and Muslim Kazi-behind, the family flees on foot, setting off across the desert for the “new India” with only a few jugs of water in hand. ![]() Nisha and Amil’s mother was Muslim, but their father and grandmother are Hindu, putting them at great risk when their part of India becomes Muslim Pakistan. India has recently been freed from British rule, and when tensions among Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs erupt in her hometown of Mirpur Khas, Nisha fears for her family’s safety. Observant, sensitive Nisha is an excellent writer, but anxiety makes it difficult for her to speak. She uses it as a diary, writing entries in the form of letters to her mother, who died when the twins were infants. When Nisha and her twin brother Amil turn twelve, Nisha receives a notebook from her family’s beloved cook, Kazi. 272 pages The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani ![]()
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