“The Golden Boy”
Fiction by Daniyal Mueenuddin, the author of “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders” and “This Is Where the Serpent Lives”: Bayazid had never quite given up the fantasy he nurtured in boyhood, of discovering himself a child of some minister or prince.
He stood out even then as a person not to be treated lightly, as a being with resources of spirit if not of fortune.