Walking Home

Walking Home, Omar Khan's new memoir following Sawdust Castles, pays tribute to the power of family, relationships, and the idea of home.

Starting his life in Lahore as a young adult in the area of performing arts, Khan abandoned an artistic career due to familial pressure in favour of a career in banking. Boarding a plane for the first time after starting his banking position, he was taken away from everything he knew - family, friends, his young wife, and infant daughter - to land in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and join a burgeoning institution: The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). Fueled by the oil boom UAE was on the brink of change. Khan is catapulted into a world of kings and sheikhs, falconry and polo matches amongst the wealthiest people on the planet.

This is the beginning of a global and personal journey. As the fortunes of the bank rise, so does his career. Khan attempts to balance his taxing career, while desperately maintaining equilibrium between his aging parents, an ailing sister, and a growing family that joins him from the UAE to the Philippines, Hong Kong, South Korea and eventually Canada.

Khan is assigned to head the BCCI's Canadian operations as CEO, Canada, a land far removed from his experience in Asia. The institution he spent seventeen years of his life is brought down by the complex international politics of the time. BCCI becomes fodder for the media, it's name smeared across the front pages of major publications across the globe.

Succumbing to a period of protracted anguish, Khan weathers his internal storm through his indefatigable courage and the unshakeable support and resiliency of his wife Fauzia and his children.