Fatima Bhutto, Nation, $26.95 (496p) ISBN 978-1-56858-632-8
"Bhuttos very rarely, even then, died natural deaths," Bhutto writes, speaking of her great-great-grandfather. And so it seems in this family history lived on a stage of national and international intrigue. A grandfather, Zulifar Ali Bhutto,...
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Fatima Bhutto. Penguin Press, $25.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-59420-560-6
Bhutto’s promising debut novel is set in the town of Mir Ali, in Pakistan’s tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. The story begins and ends one tragic Friday morning. Aman Erun, the eldest of three brothers, has returned to his native Mir Ali from...
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Fatima Bhutto. Verso, $19.95 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-83976-034-1
Bhutto (The Shadow of the Crescent Moon) tells the wrenching story of three young people brought together in a jihadist training camp run in Iraq. Anita Rose Joseph, 16, grows up poor in Karachi and yearns for the kind of life enjoyed by her better-o
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