"The Last Day in Karachi: Through the Ring of Fire" by Dr. Alia Khan-Hudson
In “The Last Day in Karachi: Through the Ring of Fire” (ISBN 147012047X), Dr. Khan-Hudson narrates her own story as a Muslim woman fleeing violence in Pakistan to find both success and culture shock in the United States. Told through the eyes of a woman named Sabah, Khan-Hudson’s tale is a moving epic of exile, the burden of family expectations and finding your place in a strange land.
The novel begins in Qatar, with Sabah as a young girl, not particularly religious in a society that often demands piety from women. For Sabah’s parents, what really matters is studying and a successful career. Her father declares, “My daughters will study and achieve all the education they can under my roof.”
Eventually, Sabah attends medical school in Lahore, Pakistan, a beautiful historic city she comes to love and in which she imagines practicing medicine. Upon her graduation, her father demands she return to Qatar, while her grandparents in Karachi implore her to stop by for a visit and entertain yet another marriage proposal. She agrees to the visit but is not yet ready to resign herself to an arranged marriage. Her trip to Karachi turns into a living nightmare as her grandparents are brutally murdered, and Sabah barely escapes with her life.
Thrown into a ring of fire, Sabah is traumatized by the violence she encounters in her native country but soon comes to realize that she has a second chance at life. Needing to escape a dangerous situation, she flies to America to visit her sister. Mirroring Khan-Hudson’s own life, Sabah lands a lucrative and meaningful position in the medical field and falls in love with an American man with blond hair and blue eyes. The couple marries, and Sabah, for once, feels she has escaped the ring of fire.
“The Last Day in Karachi” is a moving coming-of-age tale that shows the realities faced by educated Muslim women who nonetheless remain trapped in their home country’s cycle of violence and instability. Written for anyone interested in the Muslim religion and culture, Khan-Hudson offers a chilling yet educational depiction of what life is like for many women in the Middle East.
“The Last Day in Karachi: Through the Ring of Fire” is available for sale online at Amazon.com and other channels.
About the Author: Dr. Alia Khan-Hudson was born in Karachi, Pakistan. She achieved her medical degree from Fatima Jinnah Medical College in Lahore, Pakistan, and after moving to the United States, she completed her medical residency at the King Drew Medical Center and fellowship at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Los Angeles. Her research articles have been published in several medical journals. She currently works as a hospitalist.
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