Things She Could Never Have
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $20.95
ISBN13: 9781988449142
Publisher: Mawenzi House Publ Ltd
Published: Oct 6 2017
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Accomplished, sensitive, and often disturbing, these stories take us into the lives of modern Pakistanis-privileged and poor, gay, trans, and straight, men and women, in Karachi and Toronto. Whisperings of the Devil takes us into the mind of a mistreated maidservant's boy who gets seduced into the role of a suicide bomber. In To Allah We Pray, two privileged and educated young men, one of them home from Toronto, gallivant through the streets of Karachi, finally walking into a doomed mosque. Things She Could Never Have is a love story about two young trans women living in Karachi. Born on the First of July opens the door into the home of a Toronto girl who has left to join ISIS and the devastated family she leaves behind. The First will astonish many readers by its depiction of sexual encounters of young college girls in Pakistan. These and other stories link us into the complexities of a sometimes troubled and often misrepresented Muslim society.
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