Ali Eteraz’s Children of Dust Lands O Magazine Fall Reading List

October 27, 2009

Pakistani author Ali Eteraz has garnered a lot of attention recently, especially since his newly released memoir, Children of Dust, has landed on O, The Oprah Magazine‘s coveted Fall Reading Guide. Children of Dust is an account of the author’s life in rural Pakistan, encompassing his move to the Bible Belt in the United States and then to the Middle East.

The early praise for the work is excellent – O Magazine calls it “a heavenly read” and Pakistani poet Fatima Bhutto states, “Wildly entertaining, ‘Children of Dust’ is memoir of the first order, as genuinely American as Muslim, unraveling the perilous mystery that is modern Pakistan as only memoir can. Unlike others, Eteraz has truly ‘been there,’ and we are all the better for it.”

Stay tuned for elan’s upcoming interview with Eteraz for our Profiles section. In the meantime, Eteraz will be holding a book reading at Mulberry Street branch of the New York Public Library in New York City on Wednesday, October 28th, at 6:30 p.m. Further details are available here and on Eteraz’s website here. Check it out!