Home Fire - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

A family in this novel is rejected by a politician who refuses to disclose the fate of their jihadi father who died in transport to Guantánamo Bay. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this novel in which that politician’s son Eamonn (“AY-mun”) falls in love with the jihadi’s daughter Aneeka. At the end of this 2017 novel by Kamila Shamsie, Eamonn and Aneeka die in Karachi with her brother’s body.

ANSWER: Home Fire

[10e] Home Fire is mostly set in this country, to which its Pakistani author Shamsie immigrated. Zadie Smith, an author from this country, deals with this country’s cultural and class tensions in White Teeth.

ANSWER: United Kingdom [or Great Britain; or UK; accept England]

[10m] This other British-Pakistani author wrote of the couple Nadia and Saeed who travel through magical doors to work in London in his novel Exit West. This author grew up in Lahore, where his novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist is set.

ANSWER: Mohsin Hamid

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	16.00	90%	50%	20%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	13.33	89%	44%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	11.25	75%	38%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	11.43	71%	43%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	18.33	100%	67%	17%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	18.75	100%	63%	25%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
Berkeley A	Berkeley C	10	10	10	30
Stanford B	Berkeley D	0	10	0	10
McGill B	McMaster A	0	10	0	10
McGill A	McMaster B	0	10	0	10
Toronto Metropolitan	Simon Fraser	0	10	0	10
Toronto B	Toronto G	10	10	10	30
Waterloo A	Toronto C	0	10	10	20
Carleton University	Toronto E	0	10	10	20
Western C	Toronto F	0	10	0	10
UBC A	Guelph	0	10	10	20
UBC B	Toronto D	10	10	10	30
Waterloo B	Western A	0	0	0	0
Central Florida C	Central Florida A	0	10	10	20
Central Florida B	Florida B	0	0	0	0
Florida C	Florida A	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Michigan State	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	CWRU A	0	10	10	20
Ohio State A	CWRU B	0	10	10	20
Ohio State B	Pittsburgh	0	10	0	10
Michigan C	Ohio State C	0	10	0	10
Duke	North Carolina C	0	10	10	20
North Carolina A	VCU	0	10	10	20
North Carolina B	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
NC State A	South Carolina B	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech A	James Madison B	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech B	NC State B	0	10	0	10
Virginia	South Carolina A	0	10	0	10
Wake Forest	James Madison A	0	10	0	10
William and Mary	Liberty B	0	10	10	20
Chicago B	Illinois B	0	10	0	10
Chicago D	Indiana C	0	10	10	20
Northwestern B	Chicago E	0	10	0	10
Northwestern C	Indiana B	0	0	0	0
Northwestern D	Purdue A	0	0	0	0
Chicago A	Notre Dame A	0	10	10	20
Illinois C	Notre Dame B	0	10	0	10
Brown	Bowdoin A	0	10	10	20
Brandeis A	Bowdoin B	0	10	0	10
Brandeis B	Dartmouth B	0	10	10	20
Dartmouth A	MIT	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	Yale	10	10	0	20
Claremont	Carleton College	0	10	0	10
Minnesota A	Missouri B	0	10	10	20
Washington A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Missouri A	Washington B	10	10	10	30
Texas A&M A	Murray State A	0	10	10	20
Texas B	Texas A	0	10	10	20
Indiana A	Chicago C	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	0	10	10	20
Tennessee B	Louisville A	0	0	0	0
WashU B	Mississipi State	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Kentucky	0	10	0	10
Alabama B	Vanderbilt B	0	0	0	0
Edinburgh A	Birmingham	10	10	10	30
Cambridge A	Manchester	0	10	10	20
Warwick A	Cardiff	0	10	10	20
Southampton B	Montpellier	0	10	10	20
Southampton A	Oxford C	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
Georgetown	Catholic	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins A	John Jay	10	10	10	30
Maryland B	Maryland A	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins B	Rutgers B	0	10	0	10
Maryland C	Vassar	0	10	10	20
Columbia A	NYU A	0	10	10	20
Swarthmore	Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Columbia C	Rutgers A	0	10	0	10
Penn State	Cornell A	0	10	10	20
Cornell B	Binghamton A	0	10	10	20
RIT	Cornell C	0	10	0	10
Rochester	Binghamton B	0	10	0	10
Bruin	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20
WashU A	Georgia Tech C	0	10	10	20