Best of the Best Book Club: "Home Fire" by Kamila Shamsie

Join Coronado Public Library's newest book club, the Best of the Best! We will meet regularly on the 4th Tuesday of each month to discuss books that have won major awards. Receive reminder emails about our meeting by registering below. Registration is not required. 

In June we will be discussing the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction Winner, Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie, the suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences.

About Home Fire: 

Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother’s death, she’s accepted an invitation from a mentor in America that allows her to resume a dream long deferred. But she can’t stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London, or their brother, Parvaiz, who’s disappeared in pursuit of his own dream, to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. When he resurfaces half a globe away, Isma’s worst fears are confirmed.

Then Eamonn enters the sisters’ lives. Son of a powerful political figure, he has his own birthright to live up to—or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz’s salvation? Suddenly, two families’ fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined, in this searing novel that asks: What sacrifices will we make in the name of love?

Place the book on hold on the Coronado Public Library catalog by clicking here or check out the e-book or audiobook on the Libby or Cloud Library apps.