How Wild Boars Wreak Havoc in Cane Fields in Anniqua Rana’s telling
1 min readBook Review by Namrata
Title: Wild Boar in the Cane Field
Author’s Name: Anniqua Rana
Publisher: Amazon, 2019
‘My mothers found me a week after I was born.’
And so, begins the poignant story of Tara’s birth, her survival and her death. Anniqua Rana’s Wild Boar in the Cane Field is a testimony to the old adage — survival of the fittest. Her observations of life of women in rural Pakistan combined with her knack of storytelling, ensures a reader is left enthralled.
Anniqua Rana lives in California with her husband and two sons. Apart from teaching English to immigrants and international students in community college, she also writes essays on gender and education.
Rana’s novel, Wild Boar in the Cane Field, journeys rural Pakistan where amidst the cane fields and smell of spices, we are introduced to Tara and her mothers. The prose is evocative and lyrical with descriptions that come alive in every passage.
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