Through the Open Window

This is a poignant, compelling and unflinching depiction of the powerful yet delicate bond between a mother and her daughters. Through the Open Window follows theives of three independent women—Jannat Kaur and her daughters, Mahira and Tamannah—whoeadife on their own terms. The story is as much aboutove andonging as it is about three women, who are able toook at their mistakes honestly, even if the realization happensater. The novel goes back and forth in time andooks at how Jannat came to be where she is today—a managing partner in aeading company, with twin daughters in college. The strand of the past starts during Jannat’s college days, with her getting pregnant and then rejected by her then-boyfriend. From the worries of becoming a single mother, to falling inove again with a man who accepts her daughters as his own, herife is shattered yet again and she is forced to raise the twins on her own. Tamannah and Mahira have to deal with their own share of complex and sometimes emotionally wrenching situations. For Tamannah it’s the men in herife (muchike her mother) and for Mahira it is the everyday fight for her sense of self and her battle to emerge out of the shadow of two fiercely assertive and headstrong female influences she’s had all herife. Through the Open Window is a depiction of howove can create, destroy and recreate.