“The First” will astonish many readers by its depiction of sexual encounters of young college girls in Pakistan. “Born on the First of July” opens the door into the home of a Toronto girl who has left to join ISIS and the devastated family she leaves behind. “Things She Could Never Have” is a love story about two young trans women living in Karachi. In “To Allah We Pray,” two privileged and educated young men, one of them home from Toronto, gallivant through the streets of Karachi, finally walking into a doomed mosque.
“Whisperings of the Devil” takes us into the mind of a mistreated maidservant’s boy who gets seduced into the role of a suicide bomber.
View of those so often rendered invisible.Accomplished, sensitive, and often disturbing, these stories take us into the lives of modern Pakistanis-privileged and poor, gay, trans, and straight, men and women, in Karachi and Toronto. “The reason I wanted more is because of what Khan does well: offering a kaleidoscopic “Through her short stories, Khan takes us into the complexities of the lives of modern Pakistanis, writing through lenses of class, race, gender, and sexuality.”
“Tehmina Khan’s Things She Could Never Have is a riveting window into the lives of modern Pakistanis–both here in Toronto and in Karachi.” “Home” follows one of them to her place of birth in a small village in the Punjab. In “Pray,” a group of privileged young men and women, some of them home from abroad, gallivant through the streets of Karachi, until two of them go to a mosque, and meet a terrible fate. “Clean” takes us into the mind of an abused maidservant’s boy who gets seduced into the role of a suicide bomber. These understated, beautiful, and disturbing stories depict the lives of Pakistanis–privileged or poor, gay or straight, men or women–painting the life of a nation deeply troubled.
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