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Featured in Journal of Addictive Diseases.

Read "Lost and found, safe and sound: a case report surrounding the stabilization of a medically complex young adult patient with opioid use disorder through an acute wrapround care approach."

Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid is no stranger to the elite pools from which US investment banks and management consulting firms draw their entry-level analysts. After studying creative writing at Princeton under Toni Morrison and Joyce Carol Oates, Hamid earned a law degree at Harvard and joined McKinsey & Company, the leading consulting firm. Although Hamid "had his pick of investment-banking job offers when he graduated in 1996. He picked McKinsey instead, attracted by the more creative atmosphere" (Thomas, Jr.). While working at the firm, Hamid published his well-received debut novel Moth Smoke (2000), which centers on a mid-level banker in Lahore caught in a downward spiral. However, it was Hamid's second novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) that catapulted him into global fame. An international commercial and critical success, the novel was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and adapted, somewhat unfaithfully, into a feature film. The novel is narrated by Changez, a Princeton-educated Pakistani valuation analyst who abandons his career in the US, returns to Lahore as a university lecturer in finance, and becomes an anti-imperialist activist. The novel's frame narration depicts a conversation between Changez and an unnamed American stranger at a café in the Anarkali Bazaar in Lahore. However, the novel only presents Changez's perspective and does not directly represent the responses of the American, whom he intimates may be a CIA assassin. Changez narrates in a direct address and has sole narrative control.

A diverse collection with innovative resources to tackle today’s teaching challenges.

The Tenth Edition introduces diverse, compelling, relevant texts—from Civil War songs and stories to The Turn of the Screw to The Great Gatsby to poems by Juan Felipe Herrera and Claudia Rankine to a science fiction cluster featuring Octavia Butler and N. K. Jemisin. And continuing its course of innovative and market-responsive changes, the anthology now offers resources to help instructors meet today’s teaching challenges. Chief among these resources is InQuizitive, Norton’s award-winning learning tool, which includes interactive questions on the period introductions and often-taught works in the anthology. In addition, the Tenth Edition maintains the anthology’s exceptional editorial apparatus and generous and diverse slate of texts overall. Available in print and as an annotatable ebook, the anthology is ideal for online, hybrid, or in-person teaching.

Forthcoming with the University of Alabama Press, 2022.

It details how major writers on horsemanship and its military application came to advocate for formal “school” dressage together with outdoor hunt riding as the ideal preparation for cavalry horses and riders. Tracking that history through scores of works ranging from Federico Grisone’s Rules of Riding (1550) to E.G. French’s Good-Bye to Boot and Saddle (1951), Riding to Arms offers both a history of horsemen, horse soldiers, and warhorses and a study of the seminal books that shaped that history.

Related but unknown to each other, these women are exiles, immigrants, artists, outsiders, all in search of a sense of self and belonging. The owner of a professional mourning service investigates the disappearance of her employees. On the eve of the Cuban revolution, a young woman breaks into the mansion where she was once a servant to help the rebels and free herself. A musician in a traveling troupe recounts the last day she saw her father.

Linked by theme and complex familial bonds, these stories shift across genres and forms to excavate the violence wreaked on women’s bodies and document the attempt to create something meaningful in the face of loss. They ask: who do we belong to? What, if anything, belongs to us?

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Moving between Cuba and the U.S., the stories in Are We Ever Our Own trace the paths of the women of the far-flung Armando Castell family.
Related but unknown to each other, these women are exiles, immigrants, artists, outsiders, all in search of a sense of self and belonging. The owner of a professional mourning service investigates the disappearance of her employees. On the eve of the Cuban revolution, a young woman breaks into the mansion where she was once a servant to help the rebels and free herself. A musician in a traveling troupe recounts the last day she saw her father.

Linked by theme and complex familial bonds, these stories shift across genres and forms to excavate the violence wreaked on women’s bodies and document the attempt to create something meaningful in the face of loss. They ask: who do we belong to? What, if anything, belongs to us?

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Featured in The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, the paper presents a descriptive reflective commentary on migrant health considerations for children.

Read "Locked out of healthcare: A descriptive context of migrant health considerations in pediatrics."