Dear Nani [photobook]

<p dir="ltr">[para. 1]: "I wish I could say that I had a more intimate relationship with my Nani, but like many children of immigrants, our ties were strained by distance and language. My mother’s mother was a relatively quiet person. When I was young, Nani would often come from Pakistan to visit my Ammie and Khala in Canada. Because her English was limited and my Urdu was poor, I cannot recall any profound conversations between us. To her questions, I remember responding “Muje nehi patha he,” meaning, ‘I don’t know,’ a phrase I had mastered in Urdu by about age five. She would giggle in response."</p>