Nadia Hashimi

Nadia Hashimi is a pediatrician and novelist who has also run as a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in Maryland's 6th congressional district. Hashimi is known for historical fiction, including The Pearl That Broke Its Shell and When the Moon Is Low, and also wrote A House Without Windows. Her contemporary novel The Sky at Our Feet follows a boy whose mother is taken away after living illegally in the United States, and who joins a restless girl in planning an escape into New York.