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Zorah Sharaf could do no wrong. Zorah Sharah brought shame upon her family. What’s the truth? Depends on who you ask.

The Sharaf family is the picture of success. Prosperous, rich, happy. They came to this country as refugees with nothing more than the cloths on their backs. And now, after years of hard work, they live in the most exclusive neighborhood, their growing family attending the most prestigious schools. Zarah, the eldest daughter, is the apple of her father’s eye.

When an unthinkable tragedy strikes, everyone is left reeling and the family is thrust into the court of public opinion. There is talk that behind closed doors the Sharafs’ happy household was anything but. Did the Sharaf family achieve the American dream? Or was the image of the model immigrant family just a façade?

Like a literary game of ping-pong, Good People compels the reader to reconsider what might have happened even on the previous page. Told through a kaleidoscope of perspectives, it is a riveting, provocative, and haunting story of family－sisters, brothers, mothers, fathers, and the communities that claim us as family in difficult times.

 

Patmeena Sabit was born in Kabul a few years after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. When she was a month old, her family fled the conflict and became refugees in Pakistan, joining the millions of other Afghans that had sought refuge there. They later moved to the United States and she grew up in Virginia. She currently lives in Toronto.

 

“Good People is the year’s first great novel.”－The Minnesota Star Tribune

“Ingeniously structured, though-provoking, and utterly addictive, Good People will have everyone talking.” －Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“Good People is a stunning read. I could not recommend it more enthusiastically.”－Khaled Hosseinim, author of The Kite Runner