Great job!Īll of the stories in this collection are wonderfully written and will entrance the reader. There is nothing as cruel as hope.” She has taken a topic that is taboo and somehow made it relatable.
They “…become news junkies… scour the internet for news on ISIS, Syria, Iraq, and Turkey.” “For us, she dies again and again. In the story, BORN ON THE FIRST OF JULY, parents of a Canadian born young woman are shocked when she leaves to join ISIS. This is the mark of a truly talented writer. I am aware that the stories contained within this wonderfully written collection are fiction, but it is all too easy to see that they contain at least a degree of truth.įirst-time author TEHMINA KHAN has crafted tales that are so believable that you will find yourself wondering if some of them are actually non-fiction.
These and other stories link us into the complexities of a sometimes troubled and often misrepresented Muslim society. “The First” will astonish many readers by its depiction of sexual encounters of young college girls in Pakistan. “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. “Things She Could Never Have” is a love story about two young trans women living in Karachi. 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. “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.
Genre: FICTION, SHORT STORY COLLECTION, LGBTQ, MULTICULTURAL FICTION, DIVERSITY, CANADIAN LITERATUREĪccomplished, 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.
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