★★★★★ "Emotionally provoking… I can't stress enough how emotional this book is. It really tugged my heartstrings." — Reedsy Discovery

On September 11, 2001, Omar Bakari walked out of the World Trade Center covered in ash and came home to New Jersey. His twin sons answered the years that followed in opposite ways: Ali with the Constitution, Adam with a uniform — until something happened in Iraq that neither brother could speak of, and a family built on service went silent.

Now, in 2026 — as the country talks itself toward another war — Omar's grandson Elias begins asking the questions no one will answer. What he finds is not a secret but a wound: a story of what fear does to a country, what war does to the people sent to fight it, and what it costs a family to finally tell itself the truth.

Spanning a quarter century of American life, Brothers in Service is a novel of faith, inheritance, and one Muslim American family's long answer to a single September morning.

Written by a trial attorney whose practice includes civil rights litigation.

For readers of A Place for Us, Home Fire, and Homeland Elegies.

Please note: upmarket literary fiction — character-driven and quiet, not a thriller. Content includes 9/11, the Iraq war, a shooting, anti-Muslim violence, and grief.