Ours Are The Streets by Sunjeev Sahota

Told as a diary-like confession to his loved ones, this novel follows a young British Pakistani man from Sheffield as he drifts from everyday life and grief into alienation and political anger, a spiral that deepens during a visit to Pakistan where kinship pressures and exposure to conflict fuel his radicalization. Intimate and colloquial in voice, it reveals the fraught interplay of identity, belonging, masculinity, and home as he moves toward a devastating act.