LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE “Fresh, intelligent, and bold: Mira Sethi’s stories open up fascinating slices of contemporary life in Pakistan.” -Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit West “Mira Sethi has an extraordinary talent for capturing the vulnerability of people caught in the contrasting currents of modernity and the past. Are You Enjoying? is a free-spirited, confident, indelible introduction to a galvanizing new talent. Every story bears witness to the all-too-universal desire to be loved, and what happens when this longing gets pushed to its limits.
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An actress is forced to grow up fast on the set of her first major tv show, where the real intrigue takes place off-screen. A radicalized student's preparations for his sister's wedding involve beating up the groom. A young woman with an anxiety disorder discovers the numbing pleasures of an illicit love affair. Childhood best friends agree to marry in order to keep their sexuality a secret. I couldn’t put this book down because I’d been welcomed into the most intimate parts of these characters’ lives.” - Rupi Kaur, author of Milk and Honey From the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home-including the bedroom-these wryly observed, deeply revealing stories look at life in Pakistan with humor, compassion, psychological acuity, and emotional immediacy. “ Emotional, equally hilarious, and gutting. She lives in Lahore, Karachi, and San Francisco.An exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative, funny, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart.
MIRA SETHI SERIES
Sethi regularly appears in mainstream Pakistani drama series on television. She has written op-ed pieces for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the Guardian. She grew up in Lahore and attended Wellesley College, after which Sethi worked as a books editor at the Wall Street Journal. An actress from a sheltered background in Karachi is forced to grow up fast on the set of her first major TV show where the real intrigue takes place off-screen.įrom one of Pakistan's most exciting young writers comes an exhilarating, audacious debut story collection upending traditional notions of identity, scrutinising the relationship between power and desire, and fizzing with energy and wit. A radicalised student's preparations for his sister's wedding in Lahore involve beating up the groom. A glum divorcee reaches out to his American neighbour. A young heiress embarks on a secret affair, ending in devastation but not for the party who was braced for it. Childhood best friends decide to marry in order to keep their sexuality a secret.
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