Veera Hiranandani’s novel for older middle grade readers is based on the story of her father’s family. Her father, a respected doctor, and grandmother are Hindu, and they are considered Hindu as well, which means they will have to abandon their home and flee across the new border amid an outbreak of violence on both sides. Nisha and Amil’s mother, who died in childbirth, was Muslim, as is the family’s beloved cook, Kazi. The partition that has accompanied India’s independence in August 1947 is partitioning Nisha’s family as well. She lives with her father, grandmother, and twin brother, Amil, in a large, comfortable home in what will soon become Pakistan.
When Nisha turns thirteen, she receives the gift of a diary, which she soon uses to record events in the months that changed her life forever.
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