The Rug Merchant – Meg Mullins
Ushman Khan lives in New York, far away from his native Iran and beloved wife Farak. Isolated and lonely, caught in a cultural no-man’s land, he spends his days catering to his rich clients and his nights at the airport, pretending Farak is coming off a plane and he is there to meet her. On one such excursion, he meets Stella, a college student. The relationship that develops between them is beautiful and fragile–made even more so by Farak’s desertion of Ushman and Stella’s extreme youth. This was a lovely novel, rich in detail and vividly woven.