Between the Cracks She Fell
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CREDITS
Epigraph: Salmon Rushdie, in response to the Charlie Hedbo attacks, The Wall Street Journal, January 7th, 2015.
Excerpts from THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie, Published by Vintage, reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Limited. Also, The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. Copyright © 1988 by Salman Rushdie, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.
Excerpts from the Qur’an were taken from: Qur’an, Tahrike Tarsile Qur’an, Inc., Publishers and Distributers of Holy Qur’an. 80-08 51st Avenue, Elmhurst, New York, USA, 11373.
Quote by Abul A’la Maududi in Chapter 14 taken from Chapter 5, “The Maududian Law of Apostasy,” in Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Murder in the Name of Allah (The London Mosque, 1989).
BURIAL ARRANGEMENTS quotes for Chapter 31 were taken from Understanding Islamic Law: Sharia by Raj Bhala (LexisNexis Publishing, 2011).
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Photo: Bradford Dunlop
Originally from South Africa, Lisa de Nikolits has been a Canadian citizen since 2003. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Philosophy, and has lived in the USA, Australia, and Britain. Between the Cracks She Fell is her fifth novel. Previous works of fiction include: The Hungry Mirror (2011 IPPY Awards Gold Medal and long-listed for a ReLit Award); West of Wawa (2012 IPPY Silver Medal Winner and a Chatelaine Editor’s Pick), and A Glittering Chaos (2014 IPPY Silver Medal Winner). Her fourth novel, The Witchdoctor’s Bones launched in spring 2014 to literary acclaim. Her short fiction has been published in Postscripts To Darkness, Volume 6; Maud.Lin House, and in Thirteen O’Clock (Fall 2015), an anthology by the Mesdames of Mayhem. She lives and works and writes in Toronto.