The 12 stories in 'The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories' explores father figures, displacement, war, and family lineage. Alternating between realist and magical, between novellas and flash-prose, Afghan-American writer Jamil Jan Kochai's latest work shuttles the reader between two polar opposite worlds: Northern California and Eastern Afghanistan. 'The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories' sees Afghans contending with violent histories of diaspora and war, traveling back and ...