View of those so often rendered invisible. Home follows one of them to her place of birth in a small village. “The reason I wanted more is because of what Khan does well: offering a kaleidoscopic Things She Could Never Have is a love story about two young trans women living in Karachi. “Through her short stories, Khan takes us into the complexities of the lives of modern Pakistanis, writing through lenses of class, race, gender, and sexuality.” But she wove family stories of her native land and its independence war into the fabric of her novel A Golden Age. “Tehmina Khan’s Things She Could Never Have is a riveting window into the lives of modern Pakistanis–both here in Toronto and in Karachi.” Born in Bangladesh, Tahmima Anam grew up mostly in the West. “Home” follows one of them to her place of birth in a small village in the Punjab. “Things She Could Never Have” is a love story about two young trans women living in Karachi. In “Pray,” a group of privileged young men and women, some of them home from abroad, gallivant through the streets of Karachi, until two of them go to a mosque, and meet a terrible fate. “Clean” takes us into the mind of an abused maidservant’s boy who gets seduced into the role of a suicide bomber. These understated, beautiful, and disturbing stories depict the lives of Pakistanis–privileged or poor, gay or straight, men or women–painting the life of a nation deeply troubled.
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