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The afternoon light stretched thin across the house, the kind of light that made dust visible even when there wasn’t much of it.

— Alesha Faraz, The Crossing
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The Crossing

by Alesha Faraz

Fiction · 177 pages

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Alesha Faraz is a Pakistani writer, youth advocate, and founder whose work centers on childhood, social development, and the ways communities endure rupture and rebuild meaning. Her writing is shap…

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