Today, we’re pleased to present an excerpt from Farah Ali’s novel The River, The Town.  Spanning over thirty years, Ali’s novel tells the story of a family in Pakistan reckoning with both interpersonal struggles and environmental challenges. As Munib Khan wrote in World Literature Today, “[I]n Ali’s constructed universe, nature is not some medieval force, mercurial and playing with the destinies of characters arbitrarily. Instead, we have the clear impulses of neoliberalism using up resources, encroaching on land, waging war on the poor.”

We’re pleased to present an excerpt from The River, The Town, a new novel by Farah Ali available now from Dzanc Books. The novel’s scope encompasses over thirty years and focuses on, in the words of the publisher, “the breakup of a Pakistani family in the face of climate disaster, and their indefatigable search for stability, love, and belonging.”