Parwin
A Novel
Parwin
She walked back into the village that buried her — through the men’s entrance of the mosque, carrying a newborn in her arms.
In a remote Afghan village, seventeen-year-old Parwin is condemned for a crime she did not commit — a wedding-night betrayal she does not yet understand. Exiled to the desert with two weeks’ provisions and no expectation of survival, she is taken in by a nomadic Jogi clan, and given the chance to become someone else: a midwife, a story, a returning ghost.
Years later she walks back into Habashi to deliver the baby of the woman who replaced her — and to face the village in full daylight, the Quran and her own life held open before them.
Parwin is a novel about survival, faith, and the women who refuse to disappear.