Patmeena Sabit
Patmeena Sabit was born in Kabul a few years after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. When she was a month old, her family fled the conflict and became refugees in Pakistan, joining the millions of other Afghans who had sought refuge there. They later moved to the United States, and she grew up in Virginia. She currently lives in Toronto.
Patmeena Sabit’s debut novel, Good People, is an electrifying whodunit. Sabit writes about the Sabit family, who came to the Washington, D.C. area from Afghanistan and have become a picture of success. An unthinkable tragedy strikes, and everyone is left reeling, and the family is thrust into the court of public opinion. Did the Sharaf family achieve the American dream? Or was the image of the model immigrant family just a façade? Told through a kaleidoscope of perspectives, it is a riveting, provocative, and haunting story of family—sisters, brothers, mothers, fathers, and the communities that claim us as family in difficult times.