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Clipped Wings |
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- By Jameela Alter |
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A touching story dealing with tragic circumstances and the triumphant human
spirit.
A story of two girls - one born to a wealthy Muslim family and the other to a
beggar woman.
Their lives inexplicably get entwined when the Mulim girl has to be
circumcised in the Bohra Muslim tradition.
The book follows the lives of the two girls across three continents providing the reader with a series of
interesting cameos loaded with wisdom.
The author has handled this sensitive issue with remarkable skill while making a strong statement on
traditions in the Bohra community and the exploitation of indigent people on the streets of Calcutta. |
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"The story of two sisters from India will immediately draw you into a world most people in America know little about. Rarely
have I read a book with so much heart."
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Michelle Singletary, Washington Post - USA |
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| "Jameela Alter's debut novel, On Clipped Wings, is a powerful and lyrical telling of journeys and self-actualizations that
capture the complexities of the human experience. The novel is filled, alternately, with cultural conflicts, exploitation, pathos,
ironies, pain, soul- searching, enlightenments, redemptions, and self-reconciliations. This novel defines Jarneela as both a
master storyteller and a poet." |
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Virginia Guilford, Professor Emerita, Bowie State University |
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| "On Clipped Wings is one of the most provocative first novels I have ever read. It is so moving, so philosophical, and so poetic,
that I could not put it down until I had read the very last sentence. Jameela Alter is a master storyteller whose characters come
alive on the page. Through her characters, especially Komli, the heroine, the author depicts the many complexities of the Indian
culture which she explores from both an historical and philosophical perspective. Komli is so real that she almost jumps off the
pages and communes with the reader as she develops from a lively, not pathetic, beggar to a self- assured, educated adult in her
search for the meaning of life through her examination of the philosophical underpinnings of the Indian and other world
cultures. On Clipped Wings is indeed a drama of real w omen who face difficult choices and succeed despite seemingly
insurmountable obstacles." |
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Julia C. Elam, Professor Emerita, Bowie State University |
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