PAKISTAN AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE
Childhood best friends agree to marry in order to keep their sexuality a secret.
A young heiress embarks on a secret affair, ending in devastation — but for whom?
A radicalised student gets ready for his sister’s wedding. Preparations include: beating up the groom.
The stories feature characters who get tattoos proclaiming I HATE MY LIFE, drunk maulanas fulminating against celebrating Basant on television and hurling out fatwas, humiliation on film sets and an older actress telling a young one: “It’s showbiz, na. You have to look like Deepika, work like a donkey, think like a man.”
A debut story collection that offers real insights into Pakistani society, Are You Enjoying? fizzes with wit and energy as it upends traditional notions of identity and probes the nature of desire.
The author Mira Sethi was Books editor at The Wall Street Journal before she returned to Pakistan.