About the Book: Beloved Strangers
On and on we dream, we wish, we love - no matter that the dreams come to an end,
the wishes evolve or that love dissipates like dust in the wind. Perhaps, what
matters only is that we have lived long enough to dream, hard enough to wish and
indisputably enough to love.
One of Marias early memories growing up in Dhaka is of planning to run away with
her friend Nadia. Even then, Maria couldnt quite figure out why she longed to
escape.
It is not that home is an unhappy place. Its just that in her family, joy is
ephemeral. With