Broken Threads
Mishal Husain
Broken Threads was a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller, was shortlisted for the Westminster Book Awards, and was named a Tablet Book of the Year. A memoir exploring themes of identity, belonging, and the search for home. The author traces her family's journey across continents and through generations, examining how personal history shapes who we become. Through intimate storytelling, she navigates questions of faith, culture, and what it means to build a life between worlds.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- HarperCollins UK
- Year
- 2024
- ISBN-13
- 9780008531706
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Partition of IndiaFamily historyMigration
Awards
- The Orwell Prize for Political WritingShortlisted(2025)
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