What is Home, Mum?
by Sabba Khan
PUBLICATION DATE: May 2022
6” X 9”
288 PAGES
TRADE PAPERBACK
ISBN: : 9781951491178
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What People Are Saying
“A great read, filled with joy and heartbreak, touching both the heart and the mind.” —Azar Nafisi, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran
“A breath of fresh air. Beautiful and inviting. Enthusiastically recommended for all, who in a globalized world find ourselves between the local and the global.”—Omid Safi, author of Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition
“A razor-sharp, resilient and generous view of what it means to believe, belong, and breathe within spaces that are designed to keep you out.” —Zeba Talkhani, author of My Past is a Foreign Country: A Muslim Feminist Finds Herself
“A jewel of a book. Exquisitely moving, almost painfully so. Investigating the architecture of the heart and all the systems that surround it with precision and grace." —Bishakh Som, author of Apsara Engine and Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir
“Breathtaking imagery. Never shying away from the complexities and the pain, but holding this alongside so much hope and love that it feels like magic!” —Ruby Elliot, author of It's All Absolutely Fine: Life Is Complicated So I've Drawn It Instead
“A beautiful, ethereal, and architectural meditation on belonging and identity.” —Kate Evans, author of Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
“Sabba Khan builds whole vast and delicate worlds on her pages and leads you through them with her big beautiful curious heart.” —Danny Noble, author of Shame Pudding: A Graphic Memoir
Synopsis
What do identity, belonging, and memory mean to one young Muslim woman and her family against a backdrop of history?
Race, gender, and class are explored in a compelling personal narrative creating a strong feminist message of self-reflection and empowerment. As a second-generation Pakistani immigrant living in East London, Sabba Khan paints a vivid snapshot of contemporary British Asian life and investigates the complex shifts experienced by different generations within immigrant communities.
About the Author
Sabba Khan is a visual artist, graphic novelist, and architectural designer. She is an advocate for increasing working-class black and brown representation in the arts and publishing as well as in architecture and construction. Her work is included in the Eisner award-winning graphic anthology Drawing Power. And she currently lives in East London, in the UK. This is her debut as an author.
