Drinking the Ocean

The day after his thirty-third birthday, Murad spots a familiar face at a crowded intersection in downtown Toronto. Shocked, he stands silently as Sofi, the woman he’d loved almost a decade ago, walks by holding the hand of a small child. Descending the subway steps to return home to his wife as the past washes over him, Murad is taken back to the first time he met Sofi.

Moving between Canada, England and Pakistan, Saad Omar Khan has created an elegant and sweeping story of familial duty, romantic love and faith that illuminates the different, often difficult, paths a person could take to happiness