About the Book: The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
Debut novel from the author of the bestselling Songs of Blood and Sword
Fatima Bhuttos stunning fiction debut begins and ends one rainswept Friday
morning in Mir Ali, a small town in the troubled tribal region of Waziristan,
close to the Afghan border. Three brothers meet for breakfast. Soon after, the
eldest, recently returned from America, hails a taxi to the local mosque. The
second brother, a doctor, goes to check in at his hospital. His troubled wife
does not join the family that morning for no one knows where Mina goes these
days. And the youngest,