The Shawl of Midnight
The Shawl of Midnight
The Shawl of Midnight is a coming-of-age story, a family saga, and a hero’s journey set in a world between worlds. Politically, Kashmir is land contested by Pakistan and India. Spiritually, the mind responds to the dark silence between midnight and the sky’s uncertain protection. Here is a world of birds who know no boundaries, of wide-ranging mountains that seem to have been arising forever from nothing at all, and of multiple sister-rivers that create all the forms of life itself. The novel asks how people process their family traumas, their religious impulses, their countries’ constraints, the ways they present themselves to others—and to themselves. The Shawl of Midnight explores the depths of family relationships, how people change over time and distance, and how we might discover through our own pressures and actions what we are shaped by--exactly what we are made of, and where home truly is.
Half of the author’s proceeds will go to two humanitarian service organizations, one in Jammu and Kashmir, India and in Lahore, Pakistan.
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What People Are Saying About The Shawl Of Midnight
“It’s clear that this is a work wrought from lived experience but more than that, St. Joan writes like she’s on a mission from God. The Shawl of Midnight is drenched with the casual details of one who knows the world of her novel intimately and who wants to touch the universal themes. A really timely and wonderful contribution to the human story. ” - Alexandra Fuller, author of Don’t Let’s Go to The Dogs Tonight
“A masterpiece, a finely embroidered story.” - Zahra D. Buttar, Ph.D., College of Southern Nevada, Departments of Political Science, Women’s Studies and Global Studies
“The Shawl of Midnight is a mesmerizing second novel from Jackie St. Joan that takes you into the frightful challenges and drama of gender crisis in Pakistan and India through the experiences of a family we know well from her breakthrough book, My Sisters Made of Light.” Fawn Germer, author of Hard Won Wisdom and 8 other titles.
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Jacqueline St. Joan is an award-winning poet, memoirist, essayist, writer of fiction and feminist legal scholarship. Her writing intersects the fields of law and literature with the voices of contemporary protest and reconciliation. She writes about history and family fictions; the abuse of women and inheritance of racism; the minds of children, teaching and learning; law and justice and literature; South Asia, gardens, birds. She has a law degree and a Master’s in creative writing. A lifelong feminist, she is a mother, grandmother, and a social justice activist with a voice. Learn more about Jacqueline.