Sairish Hussain’s critically acclaimed, award-winning debut novel
The Family Tree(2020) has been shortlisted for several prizes such as “the Costa First Novel Award, the Portico Prize – awarded to the book that ‘best evokes the spirit of the North of England’ – and the Diverse Book Awards. She was also selected as one of the Women’s Prize for Fiction Futures finalists” (O’Keeffe).
The novel spans a period of nearly twenty-five years (February 1993 to January 2017) and follows a Muslim British-Pakistani family in Bradford, England, consisting of Amjad, a widower, and his two children, Saahil and Zahra. Tragedy strikes when, shortly before their university graduation, Saahil and Ehsan, his best friend since childhood, become victims of a brutal racist attack that leaves
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Citation: Butt, Nadia, Tasnim El Fechtali. "The Family Tree". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 November 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=41522, accessed 21 December 2024.]
