Katrina Nights: Love in the Time of Flooding

Men in black drag a bearded Arab male away from the waiting room at Chicago O'Hare port-of-entry. Fouad Khan, a young Pakistani coming to US on a Fulbright scholarship to do a PhD, witnesses the arrest, unaware that the event will end up having a profound bearing on his own future. His first week in America, Katrina; an uninhibited, blue-eyed, nymphomaniac barges in on him taking shower in the men's dressing room at University of Houston's school gym, and a journey of sexual misadventures begins. Caught in the blurry cycle of chase and gratification, he becomes an addict and his life, a running porn flick. But then back at the lab, his research starts to point towards a bleak conclusion about the future of human civilization. As he tries to make sense of his discovery, the behavior of his close Arab friends, Ishmael and Ramna, starts to turn increasingly mysterious. Meanwhile, his aging father back home -who needs him dearly in a rare hour of weakness- waits for him to finish his PhD and come back home. On Fouad's mind, there's only Katrina and the tingle of anticipating a new carnal experience every night. A tale of sex, intrigue, violence, passion and revelation, Katrina Nights is an ambitious debut novel about nothing less than the nature of life, the clash of civilizations and the very future of mankind. This is a book that will, in the least, leave you looking at the world through boldly different shades.