Nasreen does not belong in Rahimganj, a small town by the river Gomti in UP. And she no longer knows where she does. She has no culture, no language that she can claim as her own. Her mother, Saira Alvi, a famous poet and feminist, when she gave Nasreen in marriage to the town's most prominent family, had hoped to spare her daughter the loneliness of a rebel life; but the shift only deprived Nasreen of the few certainties she had. For years now she has lived ...
