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Lara Zuberi

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Khaled Hosseini, Daphne du Maurier, Eric Segal,Kamila Shamsie

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Lara Zuberi is of Pakistani origin. She writes literary fiction which has a multicultural flavor with a strong emphasis on the value of relationships. Her first novel, The Lost Pearl, was published in 2012. Her second novel, Torn Pages, was published on January 1st, 2018. She is currently working on the final draft of her collection of Urdu poetry and has begun writing her third novel, The Ruined Canvas.
She is an Associate Professor in the department of Hematology and Oncology at the University of Florida, and lives her life as mother, daughter, physician, and author, grateful to her family for making it possible for all to coexist.

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Lara Zuberi Fortunately, my job as an oncologist, and as a mother of an energetic eleven-year-old keeps me very busy. Therefore, my struggle is more the other way…moreFortunately, my job as an oncologist, and as a mother of an energetic eleven-year-old keeps me very busy. Therefore, my struggle is more the other way: So much to write, and not enough time to write it. Of course there are some days that words flow better than others. When I realize that its one of those days, I go back to editing mode and re-read and correct what I have previously penned. (less)
Lara Zuberi Contemporary:
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Where the Crawdads sing by Delia Owens

Classic: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Urdu: Kitaabein Jhaankthi…more
Contemporary:
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Where the Crawdads sing by Delia Owens

Classic: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Urdu: Kitaabein Jhaankthi Hain by Nasima Zuberi (my aunt)

Book I recently loved: The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare--brilliant(less)
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Nightingale on The Highest Branch

Although I knew she was ninety-two, and I was aware that she had been afflicted with Covid, I was hoping that the strength of her lungs would prevail—but alas, her time had come. The day Lata Mangeshkar passed, I mourned for her like I would for a person I knew well, someone whose absence felt tangible and painful. It has taken me a while to write this, as I am still absorbing the impact of this m Read more of this blog post »
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“How do you end a story that’s not yours? Add another sentence where there is a pause? Infiltrate the story with a comma when really there should have been a period? Punctuate with an exclamation point where a period would have sufficed? What if you kill something breathing and breathe life into something the author wanted to eliminate? How do you get inside the mind of a person who isn’t there? Fill the shoes of someone who will never again fill his own?”
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“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
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Guy de Maupassant
“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
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Confucius
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
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“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
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