memoir, nonfiction

What happens when your scars begin to speak? For Dr. Hemani, music began as a calling. It unfolded into a life path through a rare human connection — with eminent ethnomusicologist Prof. Regula B. Qureshi — whose faith in her awakened the courage to risk everything for the artist’s path.
Spanning nearly two decades, from 2006 to the present, across the academic corridors of Harvard and the University of Alberta to the soundscapes of London, Chicago, Edmonton, Mumbai, Karachi, Toronto — and a world odyssey aboard a floating campus — Writing in the Wound is a story of resilience and fragile belonging, of visibility and erasure, and of the power of art — in particular, Sufi music — to transmute pain into wisdom.