Are You Enjoying? Stories. Mira Sethi (First Edition American Hardback) 2021

 ARE YOU ENJOYING? Stories by Mira Sethi.

From the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home - including the bedroom - these deeply revealing stories look at life in Pakistan with humor compassion, psychological acuity, and emotional immediacy. Childhood best friends agree to marry in order to keep their sexuality a secret. A young woman with an anxiety disorder discovers the numbing pleasures of an illicit love affair. A radicalized student's preparations for his sister's wedding involve beating up the groom. 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. Every story bears witness to the all-too-universal desire to be loved and what happens when this longing gets pushed to its limits. ARE YOU ENJOYING? is a free-spirited introduction to a galvinizing new talent.

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.

 

a FIRST EDITION American hardback published in 2021($24.00)