A Pebble In The Throat: Growing Up Between Two Continents

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This memoir so cleverly intertwined the upbringing of a Scottish born Asian with that of her (lovely) mother in Pakistan and gave an insight into the appalling racism experienced by Aasmah in her younger years. Voices that are stopped as if by a pebble in the throat, are a recurring theme in Mir’s telling of her multi-generational story and reference a tale her mother told her as a child.

A Pebble in the Throat: Growing up Between Two Continents A Pebble in the Throat: Growing up Between Two Continents

The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter.Chronic inflammation can cause the formation of crypts and tissue fibrosis (thickening and scarring), making it easier for stones to form. Now the story of how she found her voice once more comes through loud and clear in her memoir, A Pebble In The Throat: Growing Up Between two Continents, in which she also reveals her family’s fascinating history and lifts the larger than life characters off the page.

How Scottish broadcaster Aasmah Mir found her voice in her

Born and raised in Glasgow, and of Pakistani heritage, Mir was bullied and then ostracised at school, and retreated into her own world to such an extent that there were years when she rarely spoke outside the home. Moreover, Scotland’s history and heritage are celebrated in partnership with The Scottish Historical Review Trust through the History Book Award, which sees six titles shortlisted this year. Back then it was really hard because there were no black or brown people on TV, but at least now there are cultural reference points. Affecting, engaging and honest, A Pebble in the Throat is a powerful coming of age memoir of a family bridging two cultures.Fascinating to read her eloquent perspective of growing up in the same town as our family and attending the same school. Sarah Mason, executive director of The Saltire Society, said: “The 2023 shortlists for Scotland’s National Book Awards show the outstanding talent, scale, diversity and excellence that we are so lucky to have in Scotland today. It was just being able to totally relax and not feel you stood out, because there were all types of girls there, all different shades of brown, and it was just nice not waiting for that moment that would come almost every day where somebody would say something that would remind you that you were not the same as everybody else. What do you mean there was a stepmother in the house and what do you mean your mum was married before, and all this stuff.