{"product_id":"isolated-incident-mariam-pirbhai-9781774150887","title":"Isolated Incident","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen a rock, a threatening letter, and a burning Quran are thrown into a mosque on the outskirts of Toronto, religious leaders and the police shrug it off as an isolated incident. But many see it as a hate crime. Among them is Kashif Siddiqui, the son of Pakistani immigrants. Kashif joins a group of volunteers at an Islamic Cultural Centre on a security watch during the festive Eid night, a potential target of another attack. When an attack materializes, Eid night becomes a test of friendship, family, and faith for the community; it also ends in near-tragedy and a declaration of love and reconciliation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecommended by CBC Books, \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire, Hamilton Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, the Toronto International Festival of Authors, and FOLD (Festival of Literary Diversity), \u003ci\u003eIsolated Incident\u003c\/i\u003e is Mariam Pirbhai's debut novel. \u003ci\u003eIsolated Incident\u003c\/i\u003e depicts the disturbing rise in hate-crimes directed at Canadian Muslims living in Ontario and Quebec, while also calling into question issues of land and belonging for both immigrant and settler. Will the children of South Asian immigrants, like Kashif Siddiqui and Arubah Anwar, be able to cultivate a new relationship to what is at once an Indigenous and colonized land-even as they are, themselves, under attack for their difference and their beliefs? Pirbhai enters provocative new territory in Canadian literature, seeing in the Pakistani-Canadian and Muslim diasporas a reservoir of experience and story, where questions of faith and community, migration and citizenship, misogyny and Islamophobia, are central to the political and social tenor of our times. As \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e reviewer Zeahaa Rehman notes, \"reading \u003ci\u003eIsolated Incident\u003c\/i\u003e is not unlike receiving a series of pinpricks that ultimately form a bruise in the reader's heart, reminding them of their relationship to the deeply rooted Islamophobia in Canada.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariam Pirbhai\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1774150883\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781774150887\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.66h x 5.67w x 0.55d","brand":"Mariam Pirbhai","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44073234530559,"sku":"9781774150887","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8e3c9d16-e960-41b1-9464-a07dbddb331c.jpg?v=1685446617","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/isolated-incident-mariam-pirbhai-9781774150887","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}