Crown Pub
Price: $23.00
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H. M. NAQVI
reads from
Home Boy
Harvard Book Store is happy to welcome Pakistani writer H.M. NAQVI for a reading from his first novel, Homeboy, which was mostly written during Mr. Naqvi's stay in an apartment above our store. Home Boy follows the lives of three young Pakastani immigrants to the United States, trying to get by in the electric atmosphere of New York City. Their lives seem to be taking shape until they embark on a roadtrip in the weeks after the 9/11 attacks, and discover a country changing around them. Rollicking, bittersweet, and sharply observed, Home Boy is at once an immigrant’s tale, a mystery, and a story of love and loss, as well as a unique meditation on Americana and notions of collective identity. “A genre busting, page-turning debut, Home Boy fuses street slang and literary discourse, pop culture and politics, history and comedy, East and West. Ultimately, though, Home Boy is a thoughtful story about a boy who becomes a man in these fraught and frightening times.” –John Wray (Lowboy)
"Viciously hilarious, Home Boy bursts with intelligence and energy and pathos. I haven’t read anything like it.” –Gary Shteyngart (Absurdistan)
“A marvelous literary achievement shaped by a refreshingly humane, irresistibly cool, and distinctly curried sensibility. From the word go, Home Boy is populated by larger-than-life characters and big ideas. It will make you think, laugh out loud, possibly cry, and at times, dance with joy. You won’t even notice that H. M. Naqvi has redefined South Asian literature.”
–Lee Siegel (Love in a Dead Language) For more information about the book, please visit the author's website at www.hmnaqvi.com.
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