THE SHAWL OF MIDNIGHT

Published by the Golden Antelope Press, The Shawl of Midnight, is a standalone sequel to My Sisters Made of Light, Jacqueline’s first novel that explored a Pakistani family’s determination to educate women and defend human rights.

The Shawl of Midnight is a coming-of-age story, a family saga, and a hero’s journey set in Pakistan, India, and Kashmir. We pick up the story eighteen years later, following young Nafeesa into the depths of family relationships, surprising changes 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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“Jacqueline St. Joan writes with the passion of a life-long feminist and the insight of wide experience. She brings to her story what she brought to the law, a conviction that life is full of both struggle and purpose and that grace comes to us when we have no reason to expect it.” -Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina

“The Shawl of Midnight is a remarkable work. I found myself as immediately taken with this book as I was with its predecessor My Sisters Made of Light. Its depiction of time and place, its evolution of character, are told with such convincing detail that it has the ring of truth. I literally read twenty pages thinking I had turned only one. The Shawl of Midnight is a compelling story that belongs in the annals of literature.” - Harry Maclean, Edgar Award-winning author, In Broad Daylight and The Past is Never Dead: the Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi's Struggle for Redemption

“An absorbing, inherently interesting, deftly crafted novel that will have a very special appeal and resonance with women readers, The Shawl of Midnight showcases author Jacqueline St. Joan's genuine flair for originality, eloquence, and the kind of memorable narrative storytelling style that fully engages the reader's rapt attention from first page to last.” - Midwest Book Review

“St. Joan manages from the first page to draw the reader into this exquisite novel about sisterhood, coming of age and the ways women can cross generations, borders and cultures to weave from the tatters of oppression enduring fabrics of deliverance and justice.” – Susan Greene, the Colorado News Collaborative

“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.

“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

“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

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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.