At Will

Spirits pay visit from netherworld and birds drop dead, statues shed human blood and moon is seen split in two, predictions are made in newspaper and a saint puts a dismembered head back in place in an enchanted land of Far East. It is a universe where nothing is forbidden and everything foreseeable is imagined. The author takes the viewer in a remarkable journey from a dilapidated house of Mymensingh to the streets of California all the while blurring the line between reality and magic. Part manual and part a primer on life, it is a journey not to be missed.

About the Author

Born in Bangladesh on October 18, 1983, Zeeshan Mahmud is the only son of Mir Shahabuddin Mohammad and Hasina Banu. He attended Fairmount Avenue Elementary School in Philadelphia where his father was completing Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program before moving back home. At Dhaka, he attended Scholastica for a while before travelling to Pretoria. There his father held a post of Economic Counselor as a diplomat. In South Africa he attended the prestigious Pretoria Boys High School. He would find himself traveling again, this time to Orange County where he would graduate from Garden Grove High School and attend Orange Coast College on and off before dropping out of Cypress College in 2016. Flamboyant but shy, he once dressed up in Uncle Sam costume during an exam in his political science class at Orange Coast College to a pin-drop audience who were not least bit amused. He has an eclectic taste in nearly everything from bird-watching to Eastern philosophy but his major obsession is Bangladesh cricket team.

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