Radiant Fugitives

Copyright © 2021 by Nawaaz Ahmed

First hardcover edition: 2021

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events is unintended and entirely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Ahmed, Nawaaz, author.

Title: Radiant fugitives : a novel / Nawaaz Ahmed.

Description: First hardcover edition. | Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2021.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020048936 | ISBN 9781640094048 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781640094055 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: East Indians—United States—Fiction. | Muslim families—Fiction. | Estranged families—Fiction. | Newborn infants—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3601.H577 R33 2021 | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020048936

Jacket design by Jaya Miceli

Book design by Jordan Koluch

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