Bestselling author Nadia Hashimi is the latest intrepid writer to brave The Writer’s Gauntlet with Sadie Kaye. For once though, you won’t need a box of tissues. She’s witterific! Her take-down of the patriarchy earned the Gauntlet its first (and I suspect only) like on IG from the US State Department of Congress, which was a trip!
https://thehooghlyreview.com/sadie-kaye-vs-nadia-hashimi
https://hongkongbuzz.hk/2026/09/battle-of-the-wits-sadie-kaye-versus-nadia-hashimi
Her latest novel City of Widows, the long-awaited sequel to The Pearl That Broke its Shell, has been described by Afghan women’s rights advocate Shikha S. Lamba on her Coffee & Conversations podcast as “a tale of reinvention and resistance.”
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