The Children of This Madness

a novel by Gemini Wahhaj

Pub Date: December 5, 2023, ISBN Paperback: 979-8-9877471-4-8, ISBN eBook: 979-8-9877471-5-5

In The Children of this Madness, Gemini Wahhaj pens a complex tale of modern Bengalis, one that illuminates the recent histories not only of Bangladesh, but America and Iraq. Told in multiple voices over successive eras, this is the story of Nasir Uddin and his daughter Beena, and the intersection of their distant, vastly different lives.

As the US war in Iraq plays out a world away, and Beena struggles to belong to Houston’s tony Bengali American community-many of whom serve the same corporate masters she sees destroying Iraq-recently widowed engineering professor Nasir Uddin journeys to America not only to see Beena and her new husband but the many former students who make up the immigrant community Beena has come to view with ambivalence. With subtlety, grace, and love, Wahhaj dramatizes this mingling of generations and cultures, and the search for an ever-elusive home that define the Bengali American experience.

About the author

I am a Bangladeshi American writer living in the US. I wrote my debut novel The Children of This Madness as a new immigrant in the US, while I was a graduate student in the creative writing program at the University of Houston and war raged in Iraq. I am grateful to publish the novel in December of this year, in the 20 year anniversary of the Iraq war, about Bengalis living in Texas, and their complicated history with both Iraq and the US.

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