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Here’s what reviewers are saying:

Kahan’s beautiful, noble quest gives the reader a vertiginous sense of life’s fragility — of just how swiftly all that one relies upon can be shattered by prejudice and political upheaval. Yet for all that goes wrong — is wrong — light emerges, manifest in language, letters and longing, in love and dignity among the ruins. The life explored here — tenderly considered — offers proof that humanity may yet defeat the inhumane.

–Joseph Mackin, author of the novel Pretend All Your Life

Because my special empathy with Hazel Kahan’s narrative comes from also being interned during WWII, growing up neither European nor Asian in China, and revisiting my Asian roots much later in life, I find the account of her return to Lahore enchanting. Despite the book’s title, the reader will decide whether Pakistan was ever truly her “home.” What a story!

–Tom Scovel, author of The Year China Changed 

In this fascinating memoir, we learn about the full, rich, interesting lives of Hazel Kahan and her incredible family. As readers, we are the beneficiaries of her willingness to reflect on struggles that many might rather avoid, helping us to discover how international persecution and internment shape personal and familial  lives, and how false preconceptions and stereotypes can be.

—Nora Kramer, founder of Youth Empowered Action (YEA) Camp

Decades later, Hazel Kahan makes a highly evocative pilgrimage back to a very different Pakistan from the emerging country she left in 1971. This is a complex and important piece of history, well told. Her story and mine came together first at Woodstock School in India, and now at WPKN in Bridgeport—where as probing interviewer on air Hazel displays the same abundant investigative talent that’s on every page of this timely new book.

–Jim Motavalli, author and WPKN-FM host