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 “It’s pure joy to read this book.Bracingly sharp.While Sethi clearly has fun with her characters, she also treats them with sensitivity and compassion.” - Refinery29 “Perceptive, witty, and beautifully written, these stories open unusual windows into the world of young, urban South Asians. These are complex, delicate stories, alert to both the comic and the tragic. And while they focus on characters changing in a changing society, there is a timelessness about Sethi’s work that I think comes from her precise observations that a reader will remember like lines of poetry, for their beauty.” -Kiran Desai, Booker Prize–winning author of The Inheritance of Loss “A powerful book with a light touch, marking the arrival of an assured storyteller.Sethi is operating in a rich tradition of South Asian storytelling, but also, with the distinct and vibrant perspective she offers, making it her own.” - Vogue “ Are You Enjoying? is emotional, equally hilarious, and gutting. 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. 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.
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