Poetry.
Asian & Asian American Studies.
Moving through past, present and future, this is a family history that journeys between America, Pakistan, modern Europe and even into space.
Faisal Mohyuddin delves into the past of his parents and their neighbours in Pakistan and India in a self-consciously impossible attempt to find some way of belonging to a place that is lost.
Moving from elegant ghazals of lament to stuttering, disjointed phrases of yearning, Mohyuddin portrays with restrained emo.