Dazzling.
A novel that holds up to scrutiny a world of claustrophobic war zones, virulent social media and cities collapsing upon themselves, and then sets it down again, transformed by the grace of storytelling.
- Siddartha Deb, author of The Point of Return Anita lives in Karachi's biggest slum.
Her mother is a maalish wali, paid to massage the tired bones of rich women.
But Anita's life will change forever when she meets her elderly neighbour, a man whose shelves of book.
Verso Fiction The runaways, paperback/fatima bhutto
