This list started in 2007, but books with a different viewpoint have been popping up ever since ...
Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie: Broken Verses takes place in Karachi, Pakistan. The story revolves around Aasmaani Akram’s search for her mother’s lover, who supposedly died from torture in a prison where he was sent for his radical views. The mystery of the Poet’s true whereabouts is woven into Aasmaani’s efforts to come to terms with being abandoned by her mother.
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines: Gaines’ award-winning novel, set in a Louisiana parish, is told through the eyes of an educated black man, Grant Wiggins, whose aunt asks him to visit a convicted murderer. Pay no attention to the fact that the conviction is unjust; Grant’s job is to make sure that young Jefferson approaches the electric chair as a man, and not as a “hog,” as the court has labeled him. This is a compelling story of racism and the struggle for equality and self-respect.
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