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In this excerpt from her new novel The Writing on My Forehead, author Nafisa Haji describes an incident in the protagonist’s youth that lays bare the priorities set down by tradition, where the threat of serious injury is not abhorred for injury’s sake, but for prospects of a future marriage.

Author Nafisa Haji has a story to tell. But it’s a story within a story – the journey she took while she was writing her first novel The Writing on My Forehead – in which she learned about her own identity as she was conveying, through fiction, the perceptions she had of herself.