Jeffrey Brown:

The 51-year-old Hamid, whom I met recently in New York, has lived between countries and cultures, what he refers to as a hybridized life.

Born into a Punjabi family in Lahore, Pakistan, he spent part of his childhood in California, where his father studied for a Ph.D. at Stanford. He later returned to the U.S. to attend Princeton and Harvard Law School and then worked in New York and London, before turning full-time to writing, back in Lahore.

The new novel, he says, dates back to 9/11, and how he saw his own privileged place change, losing what he now describes as a kind of partial whiteness that defined him in the world, even as a brown man.

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