Hafsa Zayyan is a writer and dispute resolution lawyer based in London. She won the inaugural #Merky Books New Writers' Prize in 2019. We Are All Birds of Uganda is her debut novel, inspired by the mixed background from which she hails. She studied Law at the University of Cambridge and holds a masters' degree from the University of Oxford.
At the Guardian Zayyan tagged ten of the best books about dual identity, including:
The Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriRead about the other entries on the list.
In her debut novel, Lahiri looks at how our names shape identity, as she tells the story of one American Bengali family and their son, Gogol. Spanning three decades of Gogol’s life in the US, Gogol is constantly pulled between two identities: the Bengali culture of his parents and the American one he is raised in.
The Namesake is among Abir Mukherjee's top ten books about Calcutta, Maura Roosevelt's five juicy, complicated, and otherwise strange family tales, and Amanda Bullock's twelve best dates in fiction.
--Marshal Zeringue
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