These tales of Pakistani society provide an insight into family relationships, marriage, rites of passage, societal roles and the impact of political change. The title story follows the obsession of a schoolmaster with a woman whose veiled face he ne...
Fiction. Asian American Studies. The stories in Pakistan-born Tahira Naqvi's second collection have a life in the South Asian diaspora of North America. Told in multiple voices -- aging aunts, mothers, cousins, the environment of the motherland itsel...