“Khattak re-examined his assumptions yet again. A black chador said nothing about a woman’s thoughts or hopes or her engagement with her country’s political future.”
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Chemistry by Weike Wang
She is tired of calling places like Bit Lots and Marshalls and asking if they can offer her a job. Over the phone, they can hear her accent and say that the job was recently filled.
Long Black Veil by Jennifer Finney Boylan
"What does it mean to be haunted, to have ghosts in your life? Most of them are not the supernatural kind, most of them are the ghosts of yourself, of your younger self"
A Separation by Katie Kitamura
This is ultimately a psychological mystery about one of the most mysterious relationships human beings have, the decision to try and share a life with another and make it work
Class by Lucinda Rosenfeld
Class, Lucinda Rosenfeld’s latest satire about gentrification and what it does to the most well-meaning of liberals could have been titled a bunch of other things. Race, is the most obvious title. What’s The Matter With White, Urban Liberals? might also have worked, as well as Do As I Say, Not As I Do or Yes, But…
The Private Life of Mrs Sharma by Ratika Kapur
for all that you have heard about the explosive economic development in India, Kumar also introduces us to the inevitable social changes that come with that development and its profound impact on a culture that doesn’t quite know how to handle it.