Side Streams: A Novel

Aliya Amjad has always felt left out of a secret. She doesn’t know why her mother left behind her Filipino American community for her father’s tight knit Pakistani Ameircan neighborhood. She doesn’t know why a woman from her mother’s past has come to stay with them. And she can’t solve the puzzle of an art installation titled “Side Streams” that is currently taking up her mother’s work space. It’s dedicated to “E,” an unknown woman depicted in the façade: Who was this woman? Was she a muse ...