While this allows her to grow as she tries to speak to Hafa, she ultimately endangers the family and forces them to leave Rashid Uncle's for the harrowing train ride that will take them to "new India," to Jodhpur. With courage from this connection, Nisha befriends the Muslim neighbor girl she sees playing in the nearby yard. Being in the home where her mother grew up, Nisha comes to know her better, making connections with the paintings she left behind. The Night Diary By: Veera Hiranandani Narrated by: Priya Ayyar Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins 4.5 (304 ratings) Try for 0. The Night Diary is an epistolary novel which recounts the partition of India into two separate countries, India and Pakistan, through the eyes of a twelve-year. Together in the kitchen, they cook for the family, nursing Dadi back to health. Once they are safely hidden in Rashid Uncle's home, Nisha's world expands again as she makes a connection with her uncle, who has a cleft lip and does not speak. The Night Diarycover illustration and design: Kelley Brady Veera Hiranandani is the author of The Night Diary, a historical novel for middle grade readers that follows 12-year-old Nisha and her family’s difficult journey as refugees seeking out a new home during the Partition of India in 1947. As the family nears Umerkot, where Rashid Uncle lives in Nisha's mother's childhood home, they face danger once again, this time at knifepoint. Hiranandani's writing, in the voice of Nisha, is vivid and intense, especially when she is describing the challenge of traveling on foot, facing extreme thirst.
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