An Isolated Incident

About the Book

Zari Zoon, a vivacious girl from Kashmir, is looking forward to marrying her fiancé when tragedy strikes. Next thing she knows, she is on a plane to America to stay with the Nabis, distant family relatives, who have offered to give her a temporary home to help her stitch back the tatters of her life. Billy Nabi, fiercely tender-hearted, longs to help Zari, but the choices he makes jeopardise them all. An Isolated Incident is a saga of haunting memories and yearnings for a lost home, of a faith continuously tested and questioned and of a love that blossoms against all odds.

About the Author
Soniah grew up in England, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan and lives in the US. She is the recipient of the Susan B Irene Award from St Johns College, and is the 2014 Paul Bowles Fiction Fellow at the Georgia State University where she serves as Assistant Editor (Fiction) for Five Points: A Journal of Arts and Literature. Her work has appeared or is in the process of getting published in Cosmopolitan, The Rumpus, xoJane, Huffington Post, Akashic Thursdaze, Bengal Lights, The Missing Slate, Commonwealth Writers, SAWNET, Sugar Mule, in numerous anthologies and more, and has received nods in national newspapers such as Dawn, The Hindu, The Daily Star, The Daily Times, The Tribune, and publications such as Newsline, Ms Magazine, and Bust Magazine. Soniah writes for ArtsATL Books where she has interviewed authors such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Edwidge Danticat, and Pearl Cleage. She is currently working on her second novel.